Designathon time! | Bitcoin Design Newsletter #74

The Designathon is upon us - it starts this Sunday!!!

It’s time to get creative and build together. Join us this Sunday at 9:00 UTC on Jitsi, as we kick off the Designathon, and then you’re free to tinker with your projects for the next two weeks. Got questions? Ask them in Discord.

Community 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

• The Bitcoin 2025 hackathon (global, devpost) is still on until May 20. 

• The BTC++ Austin (in-person) event is upon us, May 7-9. Jason and Sahil will provide design support.

• If you’re in San Francisco, join the Presidio Bitcoin Hackathon, May 16-17.

• BTC Prague is coming up from the 19th - 21st June, where we’re organizing the design track on dev/hack/day. 

• What do you think of these mock-ups for community t-shirt designs for use at conferences?

Bitcoin design guide 🗺️

• AI can use the guide to review your design and applications. See the discussions here and here.

• Subscriptions will be possible with BOLT 12. Discussion.

• More conversation around the proposal for only using ₿ as the unit for bitcoin, to simplify amounts & units.

• Help review an update to the Getting Started intro page.

• Fedimint is referencing the guide in a discussion around fee display.

Wallet updates 👜

• Have you tried Nunchuk Group Wallets?

• Bitcoin Core 29 was released. Get the overview via this Bitcoin Explained podcast episode.

• Bisq is looking for feedback on their plans for a mobile app. 

• The Sovran team is working on designs for account recovery.

Conferences 📅

• Bitcoin Filmfest is in Warsaw from May 22-25.

• Oslo Freedom Forum is in Oslo from May 26th - 29th. 

• Baltic Honeybadger in Riga from 9 - 10 August.

• Tab Conf in Atlanta from 13th - 16th October.

• Africa Bitcoin Conference in Mauritius from 3 - 5 December. 

Opportunities 💡

• ChaincodeLabs has a 100% college sponsorship for high school or college students. 

• Bipa is looking for a hybrid product designer near Brazil.

• JAN3 is looking for a remote freelance visual designer (Illustration & Motion).

• Ramblyn is looking for a web designer.

• Block is looking for an Open Source Design Engineer.

• Square is looking for a Principle Product Designer.

• Square is looking for a UX Researcher for the Omnichannel department.

Everything else 😀

• Listen to John Magill’s (Zaprite) journey from graphic designer to bitcoin entrepreneur on the Studio Twentyone Show. 

• Sponsor a report about Bitcoin Circular Economies by Geyser.

• Geyser introduced Launchpad to help projects find supporters.

• BTrust & African Bitcoiners are expanding their bootcamp program.

• Waye is looking for participants for research on burnout in open-source.

• EriK is working on the export token functionality for the BTCPay x Cashu plugin.

• An analysis of bitcoin wallet business models. Do you pay for your wallet?

• Christoph shared thoughts on how onboarding is about getting users comfortable with an application.

• Follow.Space has curated lists of people to follow on Nostr.

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