Joey Krug, the founder of Augur, the decentralized prediction market build on top of the Ethereum protocol, believes there is a shortage of talented developers working on Ethereum scaling solutions.
In September, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin noted the lack of incentives for core developers working on improving the Ethereum blockchain network and fixing scalability issues. To contribute to the open-source development of Ethereum, Buterin vowed to allocate all of his advisor shares earned from projects including OmiseGo to fund open-source projects which are working on providing scaling solutions for the network.
I’m announcing that 100% of my @omise_go + @kybernetwork *advisor shares* will be either (i) donated to charity (AMF, GiveD, SENS etc) or…
— Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) September 22, 2017
Still, as Buterin emphasized in a previous interview with South Korean finance publication Joong Ang, effective scaling of the Ethereum network to power decentralized applications with millions of active users is expected to take at least two to five years of development, depending on input from developers…
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