Do you enjoy refreshing time locks with Payjoins? No clue what that means but interested in keeping bitcoin secure and design? Join our call today at 14:00 UTC.

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Liana payjoin UX call · Issue #803 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2025-06-03 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda Liana is a bitcoin-only wallet built for security and recovery. Liana lets you set up your own re...

Congrats to Arcana Seed Lodge for taking home the best design prize at the Bitcoin 2025 hackathon. They stood out with a unique concept and execution, mashing up seed phrases, a story-driven experience, pixel art, and personal location-based memories.

Devpost

Arcana Seed Lodge

Brain wallet and optional signer using maps + masonic symbols

Make sure to check out all the other projects here:

Bitcoin 2025 Official Hackathon

Bitcoin 2025 Official Hackathon

Virtual Hackathon for the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas

The prize was sponsored by the Bitcoin Design Foundation:

Bitcoin Design Foundation

We support designers who improve the bitcoin user experience.

We'd like to give another round of shout-outs to the winners of our second Designathon, and thank everyone who participated, sponsored, judged, organized, and other wise helped make the event happen. 🧵⬇️

We just wrapped up the second Designathon! 120+ participants explored new ideas, sprinted through UX challenges, and dug into accessibility, and so much more. Catch the full recap here:

The Bitcoin Designathon 2

It’s a wrap! Here’s how it went down.

Presentation Round 2 starts at 15:00 UTC! Hop in for the next set of project demos and feedback. Presenters, have your projects ready! Everyone else, tune in to celebrate the community’s creativity.

A huge thank you to our sponsors for powering the Bitcoin Designathon! Thank you for giving us the resources to create, design, collaborate, and innovate for the last 2 weeks.

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Join us on for four accessibility-focused sessions at the Bitcoin Designathon. • 13:00 UTC – Workshop: Intro to Disability Use Cases, Assistive Technologies & Universal Design • 15:00 UTC – Office Hours: Swing by with your accessibility questions • 19:00 UTC – Workshop: Accessibility Testing, Tools & Design Pattern Resources • 21:00 UTC – Office Hours: More time for your accessibility Qs Let’s make Bitcoin design accessible—see you there!

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

We’re bringing together designers from the bitcoin community and designers from across Silicon Valley’s tech community to tackle how to beautif...

We’re pleased to welcome Basak as a judge for the Bitcoin Designathon! They currently lead Design & Research at Blockstream, and previously guided teams at Microsoft, SoundCloud, InVision and Foursquare. Welcome aboard, Basak!

We’re pleased to welcome @paperpsych as a judge for the Bitcoin Designathon! From copywriting to design to community building, he’s been with @Bitshala Bitspace since day one. These days he’s running events at Bitspace and contributing to the Bitcoin Design Community.

Today, the Austin Bitcoin Design Club will host a live critique of 2–3 Designathon projects. Tune in for feedback and community insights. Thanks to ABDC for running this! Link to call details + time:

Meetup

AB⚡️DC - Austin Bitcoin Design Club, Tue, May 13, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

*(Note: If you can't make it up the building, ping Andrew on Signal @ajdav21.55)* **Austin Bitcoin Design Club** meets to improve bitcoin design t...

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Designathon Call #7: Austin Bitcoin Design Club live crit · Issue #797 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2025-05-14 00:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda There will be a live design review of 2-3 Designathon projects. Shout-out to the Austin Bitcoin D...

Welcome @Johns from Peak Shift Ltd. as a Bitcoin Designathon judge! Johns is Founder & Art Director of Peak Shift. He has lead branding, product, and design initiatives across the bitcoin space. Johns helped inspire the first Designathon with his masterful bolt.fun hackathon initiatives. Welcome aboard, Johns!

6 days left until submissions close for the Bitcoin Designathon! Final deadline: Saturday, May 17 at midnight UTC. As we close in on the last week, let’s keep the momentum going!

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

We’re bringing together designers from the bitcoin community and designers from across Silicon Valley’s tech community to tackle how to beautif...

May 15th is Accessibility Day at the Bitcoin Designathon. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day we’re hosting two workshops. Join our workshop on disability use cases, assistive technologies, and more at either 13:00 UTC or 19:00 UTC. Let’s make Bitcoin accessible!

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

We’re bringing together designers from the bitcoin community and designers from across Silicon Valley’s tech community to tackle how to beautif...

We’re thrilled to welcome Tom Badley as a judge for the ecash Design-a-Note Contest! Tom literally wrote the book on the art and design of money (

ART&MONEY (Signed Hardback) – Tom Badley

He’s responsible for the stunning Offline Cash notes and the Bitcoin Magazine Bukele Buck. 🌐 Checkout his work:

Tom Badley – Art & Money

🎙️ Listen to his journey:

Journey With Purpose

002 Tom Badley – Offline Cash

Graphic designer and artist Tom Badley shares with us his journey practicing as both a designer and artist, banknote design, digital art, his desig...

Jason, John, and V shared some great insights and accessibility resources for designers and developers yesterday. Links are in the description.

We're on day 3 of the Designathon and it's still a great time to join the action. In about an hour (15:00 UTC), we'll host a UX research workshop, and a little later (17:00 UTC) one about accessibility. You're welcome to join.

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

We’re bringing together designers from the bitcoin community and designers from across Silicon Valley’s tech community to tackle how to beautif...

It is Designathon kick-off day and we've got one more sponsor update. Big thanks to the crew from the Here Comes Bitcoin Store for providing swag. https://herecomesbitcoin.store To see the updated prizes, check out the event site:

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

We’re bringing together designers from the bitcoin community and designers from across Silicon Valley’s tech community to tackle how to beautif...

Exciting news, Blockstream is going to sponsor the Designathon. They do so much for bitcoin, and we are super thankful that they are supporting the event as well. Now let's get together and push bitcoin forward. Kick-off is Sunday.

Blockstream: Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure

Blockstream: Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure

Blockstream is the global leader in Bitcoin and blockchain technologies, building the foundations for the financial infrastructure of the future.

For all the details, check the event site:

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

We’re bringing together designers from the bitcoin community and designers from across Silicon Valley’s tech community to tackle how to beautif...

Another shout-out to Plan₿ Network, Designathon sponsor, and purveyor of excellent bitcoin education courses for many different topics (and languages). Have you already checked out their offerings?

Plan ₿ Network

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We are incredibly excited to announce that Plan₿ Network is going to sponsor the accessibility track of the Designathon. Thank you for helping break down barriers 🙏💪🪩 Accessibility is about making things truly work for all of us, across all of our different needs (and wants). We'd love to see projects dive in and make a difference in this area. More info, including scheduled accessibility workshops, on the event site.

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

We’re bringing together designers from the bitcoin community and designers from across Silicon Valley’s tech community to tackle how to beautif...