Bitcoin Design Update #33
The Designathon is happening. Oct 12 to 23. Up, up, and away.
Join the Bitcoin Designathon, from October 12 to 23. It will be online and open for anyone globally to participate. A great time to explore creative ideas and design problems around bitcoin, from AI art to Taro and inheritance and beyond. For more info, to register, submit ideas and projects, see the website. Let’s go!
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Today on Community Call #38 (on Twitter Spaces), we will talk about the Designathon, what’s planned and how you can participate. Join us.
Pete presented a primer on Fedimint. The recording is already one of the most popular videos on the Bitcoin Design YouTube channel. Check it out (and on BitcoinTV).
The Taproot adoption campaign site is almost live. Want to take a peek? More in #bech23m-adoption
There’s a new #writers-room channel on Slack.
For all upcoming calls, subscribe to the calendar.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
The landing page of the daily spending wallet reference design got a refresh. It provides a better introduction and overview, explains what reference designs are, and how to work with the content.
A new page got added all about receiving bitcoin. Sounds simple, but there are several lightning-specific considerations to be aware of.
Thanks to sgmoore for the PRs fixing all our grammar and typos.
Our current milestone 17 is pretty lightweight, addressing various minor to-dos around the guide.
We have 12 open issues (requests) for banner visuals in the guide. These are meant to reflect the topic of the respective page, and also allow for injecting your own creative energy. A great way to start contributing.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Bosch suggests creating a “Guidelines” section in the guide. What do you think?
Mo is working on a case study for the Blixt design sprint.
Gene made some good suggestions for improving the bitcoin.design homepage, and is looking for feedback.
How to abbreviate on-chain addresses? Discuss.
Alex has a nice Twitter thread on the difficulty adjustment and would like to get your thoughts on the graphics he used.
Everything else
Lots of activity in the Taproot and Stratum channels around the respective websites.
The team at Alby did research on transaction lists in wallets.
Check out Mo’s short overview video about user flows.
Hexa is moving away from Shamir Secret Sharing in a big update to their wallet. Read their rationale.
In #opportunities, Coinbits, Umbrel, Mash, and River are looking for designers, and Geyser for a part-time front-end developer,
Did you miss Surfin Bitcoin? Catch up on the recordings here.
TABConf and Bitcoin Amsterdam are both starting on October 12 - in sync with the designathon. A good time to meet others from the community.
BTCMap helps you find places that accept bitcoin around the world.
Watch how transactions enter the mempool and get confirmed in blocks via Bitfeed.
A new version of BlockWatch was released.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow on Twitter.
🧑🎨 Oh, and make sure to join the Designathon…
This update is brought to you by Mo, Johns, and Christoph. We’d love to hear your feedback.