Bitcoin Design Newsletter #66
Bitcoin UX Design Education, Summer of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Design Guide, Saving Satoshi, and more.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
In the Summer of Bitcoin student presentation call (recording), we learned about the great work that went into the Bitcoin UI Gallery and Here comes bitcoin projects.
We have a Saving Satoshi design review call coming up tomorrow (Thursday, 14:00 UTC). They also launched a standalone bitcoin script editor, and you can meet the team at TABConf.
In the Dana Wallet project introduction call (recording), we learned about this new wallet for donation use cases, simplified by silent payments. They are looking for design contributors!
How do you evaluate usage of a code library like the Bitcoin Dev Kit used? Find out the research results in this call collaboration with the Bitcoin Product Community on October 24.
Open Design Guide reading calls are continuing weekly (recording), covering all aspects of finding your way into open source as a designer. Join us tomorrow.
The first ever UX Bitcoin Bootcamp will be held in Africa this December alongside the Africa Bitcoin Conference. Apply here.
Want to be informed of the upcoming calls in the community? Sign up to the calender here.
Bitcoin design guide & co 🗺️
Help review the current proposed changes (aka pull requests) to
Also catch up with the most recent ecash review call (recording).
There is a big discussion around the names we use in interfaces for the various bitcoin address formats (like BOLT12, aka Lightning offers).
Is “12 words” a more intuitive term for “recovery phrase”? Christoph is wondering.
Have you used the guide for your project? Share your feedback.
Looking for a way to contribute? Take a look at the open issues.
Wallet updates 👜
Matthew announced a new BDK example wallet, written in Swift. Read his blog post to learn about his design decisions.
BDG Wallet now shows dates in the transaction history, thanks to an LDK Node upgrade.
Nunchuk announced a decoy wallet feature. Enter a specific PIN, and see a wallet with fake data.
Blitz Wallet (overview video) is iterating quickly on its combination of onchain, lightning and ecash for balancing fees and self-custody.
Conferences 🍎
Bridging Bitcoin in Serbia is today!
HRF hosted a Global Bitcoin Summit (recap video).
The latest BTC++ focused on ecash.
Watch the Bitcoin Amsterdam livestream recordings (one, two).
OP_Next, about technical scaling topics, is on November 9.
Everything else 😀
Here comes bitcoin Is still making waves and this time in Asia and there’s also a meme competition on Stacker news.
Decoding Bitcoin is a new resource and learning tool for learning bitcoin coding.
Check out Bitcoiner jobs and Bitcoin jobs for the recent job listings.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow us.
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