chill
Co-creator of the Bleskomat next generation Bitcoin ATM hardware project. Created the PayNoWay double-spend app. Running bitcoin nodes, lightning nodes, and Electrum servers. Created and maintain lnurl-node, passport-lnurl-auth, and other lnurl-related open-source projects.
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Jonas Schnelli
I’m a Bitcoin Core full time developer and maintainer. I discovered Bitcoin in 2011. My first Bitcoin Core contribution goes back [… more] to 2013. In total, I contributed over 30’000 lines of code in over 500 commits (at least twice as much was written but never made it to the master branch). I’m currently working on BIP324 - a p2p transport layer encryption as well as on a SPV mode for Bitcoin Core. Around 50% of my spent time goes into maintaining Bitcoin Core (reviewing, testing, commenting). I run bitcoinbuilds.org as well as the nightly gitian builds
Ben Woosley
I’ve been contributing and reviewing changes to Bitcoin Core and Zap desktop wallet since 2017. I’ve also articulated Snowball, a bluetooth-based privacy-enhancing payjoin [… more] library for Bitcoin wallets. I’m currently starting up Communion, the world’s first Bitcoin cell service.
Nadav Ivgi
Working on open-source bitcoin stuff since '13, volunteer at the @BitcoinEmbassy and wannabe cypherpunk. Some of my work includes Bitcoin Wallet Tracker, Minsc, [… more] Spark Lightning Wallet, Lightning Charge (+a bunch of lapps) and Esplora.
Kulpreet Singh
Member of the Libbitcoin Institute. Currently building a Multi Version Concurrency Control In-Memory database for libbitcoin. The goal of the database is [… more] speed up block validation even further. More here.
Shock Network
Shockwallet is a Non-Custodial SuperApp for Lightning and features a decentralized social network for the Bitcoin circular economy.
coinableS
Open-Source software engineer. Creator of SegWitAddress.org, author of the first Bitcoin Web Development book Building Bitcoin Websites, and creator many other [… more] bitcoin tools Coinables.GitHub.io
nix-bitcoin
nix-bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
Dan Janosik
I do part-time open-source BTC work, scratching my own itches. This has included creating the popular btc-rpc-explorer, the LND-management tool lnd-admin [… more] (formerly lightning-rpc-explorer), and contributing random PRs to popular BTC projects I use.
secondl1ght
Junior Web Developer at Bleskomat & coinos and contributing to other open source bitcoin projects, mainly Alby. I’ve also built blockdate.computer, [… more] bitcoinquotes.io, BTC Price Watch and Bitcoin Recommend. I am working towards becoming a full-time bitcoin dev!
Donate to secondl1ght⚡️Lightning Address
Francisco Calderón
I’m a software engineer, Bitcoin and FOSS supporter, currently I’ve been working on a p2p lightning network telegram bot and a A CLI descriptor-based wallet to be used [… more] to safely inherit bitcoin, but my main goal now is to contribute to the RGB project.
Christopher Allen
Lead author of the free Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line, the free #SmartCustody book on protecting your digital assets, and the SSL/TLS and Decentralized Identifier [… more] (DID) international standards. Executive Director/Principal Architect of Blockchain Commons and maintainer of many open source and blockchain infrastucture projects.
Kevin Mulcrone
Building Lily Wallet, a desktop application that makes it easy to secure and use your Bitcoin using the latest technologies like [… more] multisignature vaults and PSBTs.
Emzy
I contribute to Bitcoin by running nodes like Bitcoin, Lighting, an Electrum server and nodes for the Bisq network.
Sjors Provoost
I’ve been contributing to Bitcoin Core on a part-time basis since mid 2017. Most of my time is spent on reviewing [… more] and testing work by others, but I also created my own pull requests. Bitcoin ACKs provides a nice overview of my activity on the repo.
Donate to SjorsLN Offer (copy BOLT12 code)
SIPSorcery
I work on open source C# VoIP & Video + contribute to Bitcoin’s cross platform build efforts.
Vincenzo Palazzo
Working on c-lightning implementation, and current maintainer of lnprototest and rust-clightning-rpc rust library. In addition, I’m researching during my master’s thesis [… more] to establish some metrics about the goodness of one lightning node with lnmetrics project.
Jeremy Rubin
Hi! I’m Jeremy Rubin, and I work on making Bitcoin excellent! My focuses are on not just improving the quality of [… more] the code, but also on adding new features that make Bitcoin more useful.
Leo Wandersleb
I’m the founder and maintainer of WalletScrutiny.com, a project aimed at making wallets more transparent by promoting self-custodial wallets that feature [… more] public source code and reproducible builds.
Jarol Rodriguez
Bitcoin Core contributor working to ensure Bitcoin remains sound by performing code review, tackling issues, and fixing bugs. When I’m not [… more] reviewing or fixing bugs, I dig through the core and GUI repo, looking for documentation that requires updating.
Riccardo Masutti
I contribute to various Bitcoin projects, currently to Wasabi Wallet and BTCPay Server. I also spend most of my time educating on Bitcoin, [… more] security and privacy through speeches, meetups and workshops.
Eugene
Bitcoin fuzzing enthusiast, I review and run the Bitcoin Core fuzz PRs. I only need compute time.
Luke Childs
I’ve been contributing to the browserify and BitcoinJS projects to bring the latest Bitcoin features to JavaScript. I’ve also published some [… more] libraries and educational sites related to Bitcoin.
d11n
Improving the UX/UI of Bitcoin-related projects. Currently working full-time on BTCPay Server. Learn more via my GitHub Sponsors profile.
Donate to d11n⚡️Lightning Address
Kristaps Kaupe
Maintainer of JoinMarket, contributing to Bitcoin Core, c-lightning and other projects.
RandyMcMillan
Bitcoin Accessibility for the VISUALLY IMPAIRED and other special use cases • If you can donate a Braille Display please contact me directly!
Samuel Dobson
I contribute to the open source Bitcoin Core project, where I work as a maintainer. I focus on wallet development, and [… more] as part of that, I code, review and merge pull requests into the project when they are ready.
Chris Belcher
My focus is improving bitcoin privacy. Right now I’m developing a CoinSwap implemention, aiming to massively improve bitcoin’s privacy and fungibility beyond [… more] anything seen before. I invented JoinMarket, the first widely-used Equal-Output CoinJoin implementation. I also focus on education and writing for the bitcoin wiki including the extensive Privacy wiki page. I also created Electrum Personal Server, aiming to be the easiest and most-efficent way to connect your Electrum wallet to your own full node, and in this way improving the user’s privacy and security.
Fabian Jahr
Bitcoin Core contributor. I focus on reviewing pull requests, fixing bugs, and occasionally adding new features, most notably coinstatsindex. I also [… more] regularly organize and co-host Bitcoin Socratic Seminars.
Fitti
I find and serve new use cases for Bitcoin. Building Bitcoin on Twitch (and the LNbits extension), bringing Bitcoin to streamers. Also working on [… more] more, like paywalled Discord invites and inboxes. I also do a lot of work behind the scenes to educate and onboard new users.
Donate to Fitti⚡️Lightning Address
Matthew Nelson
Making Tor as the standard for Android Apps easy. TorOnionProxyLibrary-Android; An Android Library for embeding Tor directly into your application. Checkout [… more] my other projects here.
Richard Safier
Working on Plebnet Playground - A custom signet and Docker packages which allows end-users and dev to use and test bitcoin and [… more] lightning technologies without the financial risk involved with running on the mainnet chain.
Sebastian Falbesoner
I’m a regular contributor to Bitcoin Core since August 2019. Mainly focused on reviewing PRs and improving code quality by adding/improving [… more] tests, clarifying documentation and various refactorings. Interested on second-layer solutions as well – started contributing to c-lightning in May 2020.
Hennadii Stepanov
I’ve been contributing to Bitcoin Core since mid 2018. Focused on build system, GUI and P2P. For donations please use a [… more] BTC address from my GitHub profile until GitHub Sponsors becomes available in Ukraine.
Clark Moody
I run the Clark Moody Bitcoin Dashboard, which puts all the stats of the Bitcoin economy on a single screen. I’m also a member [… more] of the rust-bitcoin group and maintainer of the Rust bech32 codec library.
Kukks
I work full-time on BTCPay Server, an open-source, self-hosted bitcoin payment processor that allows individuals and companies become self-sovereign.
Rene Pickhardt
Improving payment reliability on the Lightning Network. Mastering the Lighting Network co-author and Educator on Youtube and Stack Exchange
Anthony Potdevin
Hi! I’m Anthony 👋 and I’m currently working on creating apps that integrate Bitcoin with a modern web tech stack. Author [… more] of ThunderHub
James O'Beirne
Bitcoin Core developer since 2015. Donations will go towards progress on the assumeutxo scaling project to help more people run full [… more] nodes. Built bitcoinperf performance benchmarking tooling.
Greg Sanders
I contribute to the open source Bitcoin Core related repos, and other associated Bitcoin projects. I focus on consensus, p2p networks, [… more] and wallets.
Luke Dashjr
As the longest-contributing Bitcoin Core developer, I’ve been working on Bitcoin since the start of 2011, primarily involving ongoing development, but [… more] also including research (of possible future improvements), community education, handling security issues, etc.
0xB10C
Bitcoin Engineer and Researcher. Projects: b10c.me/projects. Occasionally contribute to Bitcoin Core, e.g. #22006, too.
Tiago Vasconcelos
Creator of the Lightning PoS. Founder and maintainer of Sparkpay.pt, a project aimed at promoting Bitcoin and LN on Portugal. Also been [… more] creating a few, hopefully interesting, small LAPPs to get people to use LN.
Max Hillebrand
I’m contributing to several free software projects, building the tools I want to use in order to defend my liberties. As these [… more] weapons of cyberspace are fundamentally non-scarce, I share my work free for anyone to use. My focus is on creating a second realm with a sound monetary economy in which sovereign individuals can pursue their entrepreneurial action.
Gr0kchain
Founder of the Bitcoin Developer Network, a community-driven project for educating the next generation of Bitcoin developers.
Evan Kaloudis
Working on Bitcoin-related projects, first and foremost, the Bitcoin/Lightning mobile wallet Zeus.
Ben Kaufman
Working on Specter Desktop - an alternative GUI for Bitcoin Core optimized for multisignature setups with hardware wallets and airgapped devices. Also [… more] occasionally contributing to related projects such as HWI.
