Bitcoin Developer

Arthur Hayes's family office Maelstrom awarded Bitcoin developer Jon Atack a 1-year grant to work full-time on Bitcoin Core and BIPs. The no-strings funding aims to strengthen Bitcoin's open source ecosystem.

Non-profit organisation, Brink published its annual report, detailing over $1 million in donations to open source developers in 2023. The report highlighted achievements from Brink-sponsored contributors improving Bitcoin's protocol.

100% of the no-strings-attached funds will go towards Brink engineers and their open source development work on Bitcoin.

The new mailing list archive can be viewed in the online interface with no Google account required, and is also backed up externally.

Inscriptions that do not get indexed by the ord protocol are known as “cursed,” but whether or not to include them is an ongoing conversation.

The developer with the most changes to Bitcoin’s code has announced his decision to step down from the Core maintainer role.

Daniela Brozzoni has been working on the Bitcoin Dev Kit to offer a wider variety of options for generating addresses and sending money to bitcoin users.

The developer will work on a sub-protocol of Stratum V2, a communications protocol meant to improve miner collaboration, increasing the global hash rate.

₿trust has located the founding member for its new cohort designed to locate and educate new developers in the Bitcoin ecosystem, beginning with Africa.

The initiative seeks to minimize legal headaches that discourage software developers from actively contributing to Bitcoin.