Community 🧑🤝🧑
Community Call #20 is today (check your time zone).
In the Design Review Call #18 (recording), Patricia presented some of the highlights from her research into how people use and perceive Bitcoin.
The next Design Guide Jam Session is on Monday, August 30.
The reading group for Mastering the Lightning Network met yesterday to go through chapter 6. Look out for updates here.
Did you know we now post our call recordings also to BitcoinTV?
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
Sprint #6 has kicked off with work on a Lightning Technology Primer, Units & Symbols pages, visuals for the foundation’s page, and more.
Principals are super important in Bitcoin and for our community. Stephan has made some Saul Bass inspired visuals for a page in the guide that describes 7 bitcoin design principles.
Christoph is seeking feedback for the Units & Symbols page. Give some feedback here so we can merge it. The header image posted on Twitter has already stirred up a bit of discussion.
There are 25 open issues. It’s a diverse mix, so if you’re interested in helping with the guide, it’s a good place to start.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
The Lightning Browser Extension is collecting ideas for a new name. Check out the thread here. The collaboration project also has weekly design review calls on Mondays. Make sure you’ve subscribed to the community calendar to know when it and other community events are happening.
Alexa has proposed some content ideas to post on social media and wants to know what you think we should be posting. Join the discussion.
We’re still collecting UX problems people have encountered with Lightning. Check them out here.
Everything else
Our very own Pavlenex and the BTCPayServer team have launched Bitcoin Smiles. A fundraising campaign for dental work for folks in El Zonte, El Salvador that can’t afford it. Show some support if you can 🙏
The amount of places to spend bitcoin is on the rise. Besides the country of El Salvador, Substack, the tool we use to publish this newsletter, has added bitcoin as a payment method (select publishers for now though).
At the PlebFi hackathon, Stephan designed and built a tool to help people find a good bitcoin wallet called Alice.
Zeus is getting a facelift. It’s a project Bosch, Stephan and others in the community have been collaborating with this year has started implementing the new branding and UI designs. Download the development release to test it out.
You can get some free sats from this Bitcoin lightning faucet.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website.
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