WeAreDevelopers World Congress: ‘People want a blockchain network that works’
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The WeAreDevelopers World Congress was a smashing success, with over 10,000 developers from 4,000 companies heading to Berlin for the two-day event. Bitcoin SV (BSV) was well represented by a contingent that educated hundreds of developers on Satoshi’s vision.
For many developers, this was the first time they had someone talk to them about Bitcoin beyond speculative trading, and they were eager to learn about how to integrate BSV into their systems and applications, Kurt noted.
“We talked to developers from all over the world and explained to them the power of adding the BSV blockchain to their development stack, to their business, and people were very excited. People were shocked at how much more scalable BSV is than Ethereum and, in many ways , more powerful,” CoinGeek’s Kurt Wuckert Jr. summed up the event.
Mihael Sinkec, a software engineer at sCrypt, was at the event, where he gave a presentation and interacted with hundreds of developers. As he told Kurt, he was “pleasantly surprised by the questions I got.” He added that most people he spoke to were surprised by the impact of integrating the infinitely scalable BSV on their business.
Jad Wahab had a similar experience at the event. Director of Engineering at the BSV Blockchain Association was surprised at how big the event was.
“It was really good to see a lot of big names and so many high-quality developers,” said Wahab.
He gave a few presentations at the event, filling the room each time as developers gathered to learn about Bitcoin. He delved into BSV’s scaling, LiteClient, why it matters, and more.
For Wahab, the biggest surprise was how little developers care about the politics of Bitcoin.
“People are tired of these things [Bitcoin politics]. They just want a network that works, he told Kurt.
The Bitcoin world has also changed a lot in recent years. At an event like the World Congress a few years ago, presenters talked only about what Bitcoin can do and their ambitions for the future. However, they are now talking about concrete evidence that Bitcoin works, Wahab added, a sentiment echoed by many others.
Aside from interviewing attendees and educating them about Satoshi’s vision, Kurt was also part of a panel at the event, giving his thoughts on BSV and why BTC and BCH are not Bitcoin.
“Bitcoin is a very strict and fixed protocol … Everything that has ever existed in the crypto-economy could really have been done in 2009 on the original protocol without any soft forks or hard forks or any other nonsense,” he told attendees.
In another presentation, he defined BSV to the audience as “an implementation of Bitcoin as Satoshi Nakamoto originally implemented it. Everyone else has tried to reconstruct the system under the assumption that Satoshi was wrong. We are the only blockchain that said: “let’s see if he is right.”
Watch: CoinGeek Weekly Livestream #WeAreDevs Special – Day 1
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Watch: CoinGeek Weekly Livestream #WeAreDevs Special – Day 2
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