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Will there be any benefits if we directly provide core source code development for bitcoin? I like Bitcoin very much and I hope to join this community and at the same time have income to subsidize my family.

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Incentives for everyone who contributes:

  1. You can be proud of yourself to be a contributor in the full node implementation used by 90% of Bitcoin nodes and one of the critical C++ open source projects.

  2. One more skill added and you will learn a lot of new things: Bitcoin development

  3. If your contribution helps Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin projects, you might get sponsorship from companies or individuals: https://blog.bitmex.com/who-funds-bitcoin-development/

  4. Maybe make new friends. Although you may have disagreements sometimes with other contributors. People don't have to be 100% friends to work together on a common goal.

I like Bitcoin very much and I hope to join this community and at the same time have income to subsidize my family.

You can work in your free time. We can always manage a few hours per week/month for things that we are passionate about.

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There are such jobs:

these companies work with or around the Bitcoin Core code.

You might also find some companies willing to hire you for introducing backdoors.

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  • Introducing backdoors?
    – user103136
    Aug 11, 2021 at 7:56
  • @Prayank Isn't it likely for NSA to hire those who know Bitcoin's code well and who can inentionally write use-after-free and buffer-overflow vulnerable code? Especially parsers. Who knows, maybe someone creates a script-address format proposal that needs parsing and unless the Core team writes it in Rust, it would be likely for them to add those backdoors unintentionally.
    – MCCCS
    Aug 11, 2021 at 8:40
  • NSA to hire those who know Bitcoin's code well and can introduce vulnerability : POSSIBLE needs parsing and unless the Core team writes it in Rust, it would be likely for them to add those backdoors unintentionally : NOT SURE why C++ will be easier to add backdoor. Also its very difficult to introduce vulnerability in open source code that is reviewed by lot of people before getting merged. I don't think I know enough C++ to review and find all such things but few others may find it and comment/NACK/report.
    – user103136
    Aug 11, 2021 at 9:15
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    @Prayank The same can be said about Linux but it happened news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
    – MCCCS
    Aug 11, 2021 at 10:24
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    Both modern C++ and Rust make it easy to write code without buffer overflows or use-after-free bugs. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been any of those in the Bitcoin/Bitcoin Core source code (excluding dependencies like miniupnpc). I think focusing on those when being concerned about intentional damage are a distraction.
    – Pieter Wuille
    Aug 11, 2021 at 14:39

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