└── README.md /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # bitcoin-dev-resources 2 | A list of resources and communities for a developer willing to learn and build their career in Bitcoin (WIP) 3 | 4 | ## Technical Books 5 | 6 | - [Grokking Bitcoin](https://github.com/kallerosenbaum/grokkingbitcoin) 7 | - [Mastering Bitcoin](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook) 8 | - [Mastering the Lightning Network](https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook) 9 | - [Programming Bitcoin](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-bitcoin/9781492031482/) 10 | - [Bitcoin: A Work in Progress](https://www.btcwip.com/) 11 | 12 | ## Other Technical Reading Resources 13 | 14 | - [Bitcoin Optech](https://bitcoinops.org/) 15 | - [Bitcoin Development Philosophy](https://rosenbaum.se/btcphil/) 16 | - [Onboarding to Bitcoin Core](https://obc.256k1.dev/) 17 | - [Bitcoin Improvement Proposals - BIP](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips) 18 | - [Basis of the Lightning Network - BOLT (Lightning Network Specifications)](https://github.com/lightning/bolts) 19 | - [Bitcoin Lightning Improvement Proposals - bLIP](https://github.com/lightning/blips) 20 | - [Chaincode Bitcoin Curriculum](https://chaincode.gitbook.io/seminars/bitcoin-protocol-development) 21 | - [Chaincode Lightning Curriculum]() 22 | - [Bitcoin-dev Mailing List](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/) 23 | - [Lightning-dev Mailing List](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/) 24 | - [LND Builder’s Guide](https://docs.lightning.engineering/) 25 | - [WebLN Guide](https://www.webln.guide/introduction/readme) 26 | - [LNURL Specifications](https://github.com/lnurl/luds) 27 | - [Discreet Log Contracts Specification](https://github.com/discreetlogcontracts/dlcspecs) 28 | - [DLCs Mailing List](https://mailmanlists.org/pipermail/dlc-dev/) 29 | - [Bitcoin Stack Exchange](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/) 30 | - [Bitcoin Transcripts](https://btctranscripts.com/) 31 | - [Bitcoin Search](http://bitcoinsearch.xyz) 32 | 33 | ## Educational Programs/Communities 34 | 35 | - [Qala](https://qala.dev/) - Africa 36 | - [Vinteum](https://vinteum.org/) - Brazil 37 | - [Librería de Satoshi](https://libreriadesatoshi.com/) - Spanish Speaking LATAM 38 | - [Bitshala](https://www.bitshala.org/) - India 39 | - [Torogoz](https://torogoz.dev/) - El Salvador 40 | - Cubo+ - El Salvador 41 | - [Base 58](http://base58.info) 42 | - [Summer of Bitcoin](https://summerofbitcoin.org/) - Global / Open-Source Internship Program 43 | 44 | ## Hackerspaces/Startup Acceleration Programs 45 | 46 | - [Pleblab](https://www.pleblab.com/) - Austin, US 47 | - [Bitcoin Commons](https://www.bitcoincommons.com/) - Austin, US 48 | - [ATL BitLab](https://atlbitlab.com/) - Atlanta, US 49 | - [Wolf](http://wolfnyc.com) - New York, US 50 | - [Bitcoin Park](https://bitcoinpark.com/) - Nashville, US 51 | - [Bitcoin Grove](https://btcgrove.com) - Miami, US 52 | - [PlebTLV](https://plebtlv.com/) - Tel-Aviv, IL 53 | - [hack.bs](https://hack.bs.it/) - Brescia, IT 54 | - [BO฿ Space](https://www.bobspaces.net/) - Bangkok, TH 55 | - [Fulmo](https://fulmo.org/) - Berlin, DE 56 | - [Satoshi’s Place](https://satoshisplace.co.uk/) - Bury, UK 57 | - [Draper Decentralized Studio](https://studio.draperx.vc/) - Global 58 | - [Bolt.Fun](https://bolt.fun/) - Global Hackathons 59 | 60 | ## Bounties 61 | 62 | - [Bitcoin Acks](https://bitcoinacks.com/) 63 | - [BIP Bounties](https://bipbounty.org/) 64 | - [NYDIG Bitcoin Bounties](https://nydig.com/bounties) 65 | - [Bitcoin Bounties](https://bitcoinbounties.org/) 66 | 67 | ## Bitcoin/Lightning Open-source Protocol Development - Funding/Employment 68 | 69 | - [Brink](https://brink.dev/) 70 | - [Chaincode](https://chaincode.com/) 71 | - [Lightning Labs](https://lightning.engineering/) 72 | - [Vinteum](https://vinteum.org/) 73 | - [Blockstream](https://blockstream.com/) 74 | - [Acinq](https://acinq.co/) 75 | - [Spiral](https://spiral.xyz/) 76 | - [MIT Digital Currency Initiative](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/) 77 | - [Open Sats](https://opensats.org/) 78 | - [NBD](https://nbd.wtf/) 79 | - [₿trust](https://twitter.com/btrustteam) 80 | - [Digital Garage](https://www.dglab.com/en/) 81 | - [Human Rights Foundation](https://hrf.org/programs_posts/devfund/) 82 | - [Bitmex Open Source Developer Grant Program](https://blog.bitmex.com/grants/) 83 | - [Okcoin Developer Grant](https://developergrant.okcoin.com/) 84 | - [LNP/BP Association](https://www.lnp-bp.org/) 85 | - [ZeroSync](https://zerosync.org/) 86 | 87 | ## Dev Meetings 88 | 89 | - [Bitcoin Core PR Review Club](http://bitcoincore.reviews) (A weekly club for reviewing Bitcoin Core PRs) 90 | - [LND PR Review Club](http://lnd.reviews) (A biweekly club for reviewing LND PRs) 91 | - [LDK PR Review Club](https://ldk.reviews/) 92 | - [Bitcoin Core Dev IRC Meeting](https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/) 93 | - [Bitcoin Design Calendar](https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+%22community+call%22) (Community Calls, Design Sprints, Project Calls) 94 | - [Lightning Specification Meeting](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+%22Lightning+Specification+Meeting%22+) 95 | 96 | ## Bitcoin Open Source Communities on Discord/Slack/ChatApps 97 | 98 | - [LND Developer Community Slack](http://lightning.engineering/slack.html) 99 | - [Bitcoin Core IRC Channel](https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/) 100 | - [BDK Discord](https://discord.gg/dstn4dQ) 101 | - [LDK Discord](https://discord.gg/5AcknnMfBw) 102 | - [Build on L2](https://www.buildonl2.com/) 103 | - [Bitcoin Design Community](https://join.slack.com/t/bitcoindesign/shared_invite/zt-1rxp55chx-dH6pWlTtWBqRw7VztgvBGA) 104 | - [Bitcoin Product Manager Community](https://discord.gg/Ztvwn8fycA) 105 | - [StratumV2](https://stratumprotocol.org/assets/discord.svg) 106 | - [Fedimint](https://chat.fedimint.org/) 107 | 108 | ## Tools/Libraries/APIs for Lightning Application Developers 109 | 110 | - [Lightning Polar](https://lightningpolar.com/) 111 | - [Lightning Node Connect](https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/lightning-node-connect) ([lnc-web](https://github.com/lightninglabs/lnc-web) / [lnc-rn](https://github.com/lightninglabs/lnc-rn) / [lightning-node-connect](https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-node-connect)) 112 | - [ZEBEDEE API/SDK](https://zebedee.io/developers/api) 113 | - [LNPAY API/SDK](https://docs.lnpay.co/) 114 | 115 | ## Jobs in Bitcoin Companies 116 | 117 | - [Bitcoin Talent](https://www.bitcointalent.co/) 118 | - [Bitcoiner Jobs](https://bitcoinerjobs.com/) 119 | 120 | ## Technical Conferences 121 | 122 | - [Advancing Bitcoin](https://www.advancingbitcoin.com/) 123 | - [Tabconf](https://tabconf.com/) 124 | - [Bitcoin++](https://btcplusplus.dev/) 125 | - [BTCAzores](https://btcazores.com/) 126 | - [Adopting Bitcoin](https://adoptingbitcoin.org/) 127 | 128 | ## Bitdevs Socratic Meetups 129 | 130 | - [Amsterdam](https://bitdevsamsterdam.org/) 131 | - [Atlanta](https://atlantabitdevs.org/) 132 | - [Austin](https://austinbitdevs.com/) 133 | - [Berlin](https://bitdevs.berlin/) 134 | - [Boston](https://bostonbitdevs.org/) 135 | - [Chicago](https://chibitdevs.org/) 136 | - [Denver](http://denverbitdevs.com/) 137 | - [Honolulu](http://www.honolulubitdevs.com/) 138 | - [Kampala](https://twitter.com/BitDevsKla) 139 | - [Lagos](https://twitter.com/BitDevsLagos) 140 | - [London](https://londonbitdevs.org/) 141 | - [Los Angeles](https://bitdevsla.org/) 142 | - [Miami](https://miamibitdevs.org/) 143 | - [Nairobi](https://twitter.com/BitDevsNBO) 144 | - [Paris](https://twitter.com/bitdevsfr) 145 | - [Portland](https://www.meetup.com/portlandbitdevs/) 146 | - [Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill](https://trianglebitdevs.org/) 147 | - [San Francisco](https://sfbitcoindevs.org/) 148 | - [San Juan](https://sanjuanbitdevs.org/) 149 | - [São Paulo](https://saopaulobitdevs.org/) 150 | - [Taipei](https://bitdevs.tw/) 151 | - [Tampa](https://tampabitdevs.io/) 152 | - [Vancouver](https://bitdevs.ca/) 153 | - [Washington, D.C.](https://dcbitdevs.org/) 154 | 155 | ## Bitcoin-focused VCs 156 | 157 | - [Ten31](https://ten31.vc/) 158 | - [Hivemind](https://hivemind.vc/) 159 | - [Trammel Venture Partners](https://tvp.fund/) 160 | - [Lightning Ventures](https://ltng.ventures/) 161 | - [Bitcoiner Ventures](https://www.bitcoinerventures.com/) 162 | - [Fulgur Ventures](https://fulgur.ventures/) 163 | - [Stillmark](https://www.stillmark.com/) 164 | - [Ego Death Capital](https://egodeath.capital/) 165 | - [Kingsway Capital](https://www.kingswaycap.com/) 166 | - [Mimesis Capital](https://www.mimesiscapital.com/) 167 | - [PlanB Ventures](https://venture.angellist.com/planb-ventures/syndicate?utm_campaign=syndicate_direct_link) 168 | - [Seetee](https://www.seetee.io/) 169 | - [Axiom Capital](http://axiombtc.capital) 170 | - [Timechain VC](https://timechain.concentric.vc/) 171 | 172 | ## Bitcoin Dev Twitter Accounts 173 | 174 | - [Bitcoin Core Devs](https://twitter.com/i/lists/1416770080885641216) 175 | - [Lightning Network Devs](https://twitter.com/i/lists/1416773279721967618) 176 | 177 | ## Bitcoin Dev Blogs 178 | 179 | - [Elle Mouton](https://ellemouton.com/) 180 | - [Rusty Russel](https://rusty-lightning.medium.com/) / [Rusty’s Other Blog](http://rusty.ozlabs.org/) 181 | - [Anthony Towns](https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/) 182 | - [Gloria Zhao](https://github.com/glozow/bitcoin-notes) 183 | - [Bastien Teinturier](https://github.com/t-bast/lightning-docs) 184 | - [Mark Erhardt (Murch)](https://murch.one/) 185 | - [Peter Todd](https://petertodd.org/) 186 | - [Jeremy Rubin](https://rubin.io/blog/) 187 | - [Matt Corallo](https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/) 188 | - [James O’Beirne](https://jameso.be/) 189 | - [Jon Atack](https://jonatack.github.io/) 190 | - [0xB10C](https://b10c.me/) 191 | - [Bitcoin.ninja](http://bitcoin.ninja) 192 | - [Christian Decker](https://snyke.net/) 193 | - [Oliver Gugger](https://gugger.guru/) 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------