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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Jul 28, 2020

Business sensibilities when developing for Bitcoin

Joshua Henslee

Building on Bitcoin requires a fundamental shift in strategy. Native micropayments let developers bypass legacy architecture for frictionless authentication. Slash operational costs and monetize immediately.

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#1 about 3 min

Event welcome and application development agenda

An overview of practical platform building sessions for the second day of the developer conference.

#2 about 3 min

Generating application revenue during early development alpha

Why Bitcoin applications should prioritize paying developers via outputs to maintain rapid motivation.

#3 about 2 min

Monetizing specialized developer knowledge through micropayments

How built-in micropayments natively enable direct compensation for expert consultations and architectural guidance.

#4 about 3 min

Managing product roadmaps using on-chain feature crowdfunding

Allowing users to fund specific features helps teams prioritize work while remaining transparently accountable.

#5 about 2 min

Promoting service collaboration in the application ecosystem

Integrating with existing services avoids repetitive low-level work and accelerates overall product maturity.

#6 about 2 min

Driving innovation through healthy competition and cloning features

Copying successful interaction models creates a competitive but ultimately cooperative environment among aligned businesses.

#7 about 2 min

Incentivizing organic application growth via paid social sharing

Funding specific user actions creates referral networks that continuously market new functionality natively.

#8 about 5 min

Replacing legacy internet protocols with native wallet logins

Using signed messages drastically simplifies application authentication compared to cumbersome oauth implementations.

#9 about 5 min

Eliminating CAPTCHAs and unnecessary data storage via micropayments

Requiring a small transaction securely proves human interaction without hoarding sensitive user demographics.

#10 about 5 min

Crucial practices for scalable business infrastructure decisions

Offloading node operations to apis and standardizing tool integrations prevents massive technical debt.

#11 about 5 min

Selecting an optimal toolchain for executing transactions

Managing keys and retrieving chain data efficiently by leveraging hosted indexing queries like bitbus.

#12 about 4 min

Streamlining user onboarding and abstracting technical authentication

Reducing entry barriers by strictly linking behavior to keys instead of requiring demographic registrations.

#13 about 4 min

Evaluating token protocol performance and on-chain object constraints

Balancing historical validation overhead within token systems alongside the advantages of open asset interoperability.

#14 about 4 min

Motivating engineering teams with continuous transaction payouts

Disbursing compensation dynamically onto the chain redefines conventional salary structures and reinforces focus.

#15 about 4 min

Transitioning data from mutable drafts to immutable states

Leveraging unbroadcast transactions with signature flags unlocks novel on-chain engineering interaction patterns before commitment.

Matching moments

4:08 min

Introduction to interoperable apps on Bitcoin

Aaron Russell · LIVE

1:26 min

Introduction to developer infrastructure for Bitcoin SV applications

Lin Zheming · LIVE

5:19 min

Building a developer-centric infrastructure for financial services

David Singleton David Singleton +1 · WWC 2023

6:04 min

Fostering the creator economy for software developers

Chris Heilmann +4 · LIVE

3:14 min

Overcoming Bitcoin application integration challenges

Rafa Jiménez · LIVE

3:46 min

Identifying viable enterprise applications for blockchain platforms

John Woods John Woods · LIVE

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