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/jamaljsrLightning Labs’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightningPolar’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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