Jamal James Discusses Onboarding Devs to Lightning Network - LNJ042 - a podcast by Chaz

from 2021-03-18T00:00

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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

Jamal’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/jamaljsr

Lightning Labs’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightning

Polar’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightningpolar

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

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

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