Community 🧑🤝🧑
Community Call #24 is upon us today. Join us to chat with Stephen and Johns who are on the ground in El Salvador (for Adopting Bitcoin) about their experience.
In Design Review Call #22, the Revault team presented their recent UX updates.
Design Guide Jam Session #17 is on Monday, November 22. We’ll chat about the guide, what everyone is working on, new ideas, etc.
A group has formed around designing and developing a new web UI for JoinMarket, a tool for improving your Bitcoin privacy. For more, see the wiki, and the most recent call recording.
Alby, formerly the Lightning Browser Extension launched at Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador. Alby brings Lightning to the browser (Chrome and Firefox) to allow you to make payments on websites with ease.
Breez has implemented some of the feedback from a recent Wallet Improvement Project review (issue tracker).
The logo for the website and social channels has been updated from a simple outlined bitcoin symbol to a more unique seal. There is a Figma file with various sizes and treatments for use in community-related projects.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
Take a look at the new overview Pavlenex put together to see the roadmap, ongoing work, tasks for writing and design, and more.
We are currently focused on adding Lightning content to multiple sections via Milestones #8, #9, and #10. After these, we will tackle the Payments section, which is going to be really interesting since fast and cheap payments are what Lightning excels at.
The Overview page of the Private Key Management sections was updated with information about which schemes are well-suited for Lightning products.
The Protecting a wallet page got an update with more techniques for keeping users on top of good security and privacy practices.
Steve is proposing to add detailed guidelines for handling payment states and looking for feedback.
Pavlenex suggests creating more flow diagrams in the guide. Would you find those useful?
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Hexa Wallet which has been on design reviews has released a new update which applies feedback they got from the community. Check it out and give them some feedback.
Casey has come up with a proposal for Coin IDs and is looking for feedback.
Everything else
Taproot went live! It’s an upgrade to the Bitcoin network that adds new capabilities to improve privacy and scalability, and enable new possibilities for smart contracts. It will be exciting to see what the Bitcoin community builds with these newfound powers.
TabConf was last week, you can view presentation recordings here.
Bitcoin El Salvador has a hackathon coming up, starting on Nov 19.
A cool visualization of Lightning network nodes.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website.
This update is brought to you by Conor, Johns, and Christoph. We’d love to hear your feedback.