Bitcoin Design Newsletter #72

Community events for 2025, Open Design Guide, and lots of job opportunities.

Community 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

• The Proton Wallet team walked through their design and gathered feedback in a review call. Check out the recording.

• The Galoy team showcased their new product in the Bitcoin-banking infrastructure space: Lana. Follow along with the call recording.

• Plenty of community events are in the works for 2025. Want to help plan or participate, join this call? Here’s what’s coming up:

  • Designathon 2

  • Accessibility Day

  • BTC Prague design track

  • Summer of Bitcoin

  • UX Research at Olso Freedom Forum

  • Design Week in San Francisco

• The first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp for South America has wrapped up (photos). Participants had 3 calls which you can watch here, here and here.

• The first round of iterations on the Open Design Guide is complete! Check it out, and feel free to share feedback. Eriol and Christoph also presented the project at FOSS Backstage.

• Bitcoin Core App designers are working on the basic send flow designs.

Bitcoin design guide 🗺️

• Watch Tristan live-code the Nummus bitcoin wallet and regularly refer to the guide in process (first time around 25 minutes in).

• Looking for ways to contribute?

  • Help add personas and use cases for activists.

  • Create self-custody guidelines for entities like governments, companies and nonprofits.

  • Design UX for quantum-secure private keys.

  • Add guidance for test transactions.

  • Add info about address poisoning attacks.

  • Or suggest your own improvements.

Seeking feedback 🗣️👂

• What do you think of this new logo for the OpenCash Association?

• Bitflio would like feedback on their social media banners.

• How might users pay for lightning liquidity? Discuss.

Wallet updates 👜

• ZEUS 0.10 introduces extension of channel leases, amongst other features.

• The cashu.me mint information page got a redesign by Erik.

• Flash Wallet Beta is a new self-custodial wallet for businesses.

Education 🍎

• The Bitcoin Journey is a beginner friendly and free online course.

• Area Bitcoin is a South American online school with various educational resources (like their Youtube channel).

• Computer-science students at Laurier University played Saving Satoshi during Bitcoin Developer Day.

Conferences 📅

• March 28-30 | Beechworth, Australia - Bitcoin Bush Bash is an open gathering for bitcoiners

• April 3-6 | Dallas, Texas – BitBlockBoom for builders

• April 11-13 | Bedford, UK - CheatCode for protecting your wealth against inflation

• April 24-27 | Kreuzlingen, Switzerland - Swiss Bitcoin Conference for Business and Corporates

Opportunities 💡

• Want to help with Bitcoin live stream graphics/animations? More info.

• Bitcurrent is looking for a Product Manager.

• Ramblyn is looking for a Web UX/UI Designer (Remote, Part-time).

• Lava.xyz is looking for a Founding Designer.

• Plan₿.network is looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer.

• Orqestra.io is looking for a Frontend Engineer with a strong design background.

• BOB is looking for a Senior Product Designer.

• Bitrefill is looking for a Graphic Designer & Marketing Performance.

Everything else 😀

• Studio Twentyone sat down with Mia White for a new episode. Also see the latest March edition of their newsletter.

• A design contest for brrr.gandlaf.com might be coming up.

• Check out the hackathon winners at BTC++ Floripa.

• Should we allow quantum recovery of bitcoin? This article argues that we should not.

• A history of free banking and how it leads to ecash.

• Read notes on the Bitkey security model and how FROST might provide benefits.

• New research on “What’s Driving Bitcoin Adoption in 2025?” by River

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