Bitcoin Design Newsletter #78
Five years of building, designing, and growing together.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Bitcoin Design turned 5 this summer, and we are celebrating it with a 5-year anniversary website. It covers important milestones, projects, and stories, and lots more. Take a nostalgic look at what we all achieved together.
The Presidio Bitcoin Design Week is coming up September 15 to 19 in San Francisco, where we are looking to charm local designers into checking out bitcoin.
We had a first AI huddle call (recording). The plan is for the community to share how they use AI and learn new tools and tricks. This was the first call of our AI call series.
We’re partnering with Dada Devs for UX/UI workshops and education.
The foundation posted its update for the first half of 2025.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
More projects adopt or experiment with the ₿-only format described here, such as Wallet of Satoshi, StashPay, and even a vending machine.
Christoph is looking for feedback on defining essential bitcoin product categories.
Chris built a wallet (for testnet4) based on the guide.
How might wallet UIs change post-quantum? Check out recordings from the Presidio Bitcoin Quantum Summit, and chime in (issue).
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Mat is wondering what you like about Phoenix wallet?
Kelbs shared a concept for reallocating funds between ecash mints.
Mo put together data in a storytelling format and is open to feedback on this way of presenting data.
Conferences and events 📅
Yashraj shared his presentation slides about Payjoin UX challenges from BTC++.
Btrust Dev Day is coming up on December 2nd, in Trianon Convention Centre (TCC), Port Louis, Mauritius
Hack4Freedom is a 2-week, women-focused hackathon in Nigeria, coming up September 20.
BitDevs Nairobi launched a bitcoin design series.
Everything else 😀
NostrPay is a new bitcoin app for families, working its way through the App Store approval process.
During Bitcoin Mastermind 2025, Loïc Kassamoto showed participants how to build a career as a designer through various design programs.
Vinteum, which supports open-source bitcoin builders in Brazil, turned 3. Check out their report.
Isa looked for input on 4 different logs for ₿itcoin Cafe.
Bitshala Bitspace shared a recap of all of their happenings in July.
Curious what is happening around Lightning? Check out the Lightning Labs newsletter.
The Cornell Bitcoin Club shared research findings about why some people don’t (or don’t anymore) hold bitcoin.
Harsh posted about his Fedimint Web Wallet project.
Half of mobile users have at least one accessibility setting enabled. See the research by Appt.
Nandini created an AI trailer for Saving Satoshi.
Calle described an ecash mint as a replacement for accounting systems. What do you think?
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