The topic of non-developer contributions to Bitcoin and Bitcoin Core came up in a thread the other day. So I wanted to elevate this list, in case people are interested. Ways to contribute other than code: Education / Outreach Optech Conferences Saving Satoshi Fundraising Bitdevs User feedback Reproducing issues Priorities? Security Dependency auditing CVE disclosure Mailing list Pen testing Dev Tooling CI Signet Fuzzing Drahtbot Corecheck,dev Bitcoin dev wiki Mentoring Developer hubs Review clubs Release Process Testing guide Building binaries Signing binaries translations Packaging for distro Monitoring b10c stuff etc Standardization BIPs Bolts etc Events Coredev Online communication channels Mailing list Delving IRC Twitter / etc Stack exchange

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin

Bitcoin

Backups of stuff Dev Infrastructure Fuzzing Devops stuff Dns seeds User feedback Outward Talk to miners? Exchanges? Surveys Research BRW Janitor work Reproducing Other items listed: Coredev conference BIPs (review, reading) Stack exchange CI Fuzzer machines Devops Monitoring

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin

Bitcoin

maintaining/hosting Signet / inquisition Utilities for interacting with Bitcoin (Core) Educational stuff like saving satoshi Delving Mailing list Backup of delving/mailing list/github comments IRC and logs Drahtbot / meetingbot Bitcoinacks (?) Fundraising Developer hubs Review clubs Technical talks / podcasts / outreach Bitdevs Deterministic builds (running) Dns seed Dependency auditing/pruning Architecture CI doesn’t account for Reproducing issues Moderation of github Research Week Twitter threads Translations Security Security mailing list CVE management / disclosure etc Pen testing

corecheck - Test Coverage

Core dev wiki Bitcoin wiki Summaries of communal knowledge Optech Release packaging for distros Janitoring old issues/PRs BOSS program Summer of Bitcoin Original:

Non-development Contributions

Eric Voskuil joined Bitcoin engineers to discuss architectural and performance differences between libbitcoin and Bitcoin Core: - libbitcoin’s history/latest updates - libbitcoin architecture - Initial block download (IBD) performance - IBD workflow - SwiftSync - Q&A Watch the 90 minute discussion:

Eric Voskuil on Bitcoin Core

Eric Voskuil contrasts UTXO approaches in libbitcoin and Bitcoin Core.

There is a lot going on in the OP_RETURN debate, but I definitely agree with this: "What the OP_RETURN debate has demonstrated is that Bitcoin Core and the Bitcoin technical community have not done a good job communicating their value – not to mention the rationale behind their decisions – to the average bitcoin user." https://blockspace.media/insight/op_return-debate-the-influencers-vs-the-devs/ The Bitcoin Core developers have produced artifacts and content on these matters already, but those of us closely observing need to do a better job of disseminating that information to a broader set of Bitcoin ecosystem participants. "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." I need to do better.

Is there a way to stream video via RTMP to nostr?

Which way, quantum Bitcoiner?

Consensus Cleanup soft fork BIP draft dropped

GitHub

BIP 54: Consensus Cleanup by darosior · Pull Request #1800 · bitcoin/bips

This is a BIP draft for a Consensus Cleanup soft fork. This proposal builds upon Matt Corallo's 2019 proposal, which i set to revive at the end...

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I get the impression that this is pretty common for Optech readers. Would some periodic less-technical “Optech decoded” or “Optech translated” summary be helpful?

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