Jamal James Discusses Onboarding Devs to Lightning Network - LNJ042

Transcript: https://sicksub.network/LNJ042Transcript

This is the 42nd episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode we have Jamal James! People might know him from creating Polar, a dev focused open source software project. Currently Jamal is Lead Frontend Engineer for Lightning Labs. We explore Jamal's thoughts on onboarding devs to Lightning Network development. We want to try to find as many good reasons for devs to get into Lightning as possible.

We talk about:

0:00 - Intro
2:32 - Jamal’s Background
6:23 - Jamal’s intro to BTC
13:00 - Ethereum vs Bitcoin: A Developer's Perspective
15:47 - Jamal’s Intro to Lightning
18:40 - Polar
24:25 - The First Release
25:06 - The Response
26:04 - Who is Polar for?
28:03 - The Future of Polar
28:49 - Call to Action
31:06 - The Transition to Lightning Labs
33:57 - Jamal’s Role at Lightning Labs
36:41 - The Future at Lightning Labs
41:23 - The Marketing of Lightning
43:04 - Lightning Network Elevator Pitch
44:43 - Day one of Lightning
45:50 - The Future of Lightning

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Polar’s Website: https://lightningpolar.com/

Lightning Lab’s Builder’s Guide: https://docs.lightning.engineering/

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