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Our top plus arsenic Bitcoiners is the blossoming open-source assemblage that makes this question possible. Open-source bundle empowers individuals astir the satellite portion remaining autarkic of governments and ample corporations that continuously effort to track, censor and power us. Many of these projects are not tally for nett and bash not person ample budgets supporting them. Instead, they trust connected an ever-increasing web of individuals worldwide who lend clip and vigor to physique them out, often without compensation.
So, however tin those of america who enactment Bitcoin assistance enactment the imperative enactment of these projects? With Bitcoin 2022, for instance, our extremity has been to propulsion the largest Bitcoin-focused lawsuit successful past that is some accessible and welcoming to newcomers, portion remaining existent to the Bitcoin and open-source ethoses (disclaimer: Bitcoin 2022 is operated by BTC Inc, which besides operates Bitcoin Magazine).
With this ngo successful mind, it has been wide that we indispensable enactment open-source contributors and projects nevertheless we can. For us, this effort started with a dedicated league hallway astatine our lawsuit focused solely connected open-source projects and the value of escaped and open-source bundle (FOSS). In October, we launched our escaped open-source summons program, providing $1 cardinal worthy of league passes to open-source contributors of prime projects. We person since added 24 further projects present eligible for the escaped open-source tickets program.
The 30 highlighted projects beneath are, successful our view, among the astir captious for the advancement of Bitcoin. Readers should see supporting these projects successful their ain ways, and those who person made a perpetrate to their open-source codebase anterior to October 1, 2021 tin verify those commits and use for a free, four-day walk to Bitcoin 2022 here.
(The beneath projects are listed successful alphabetical order.)
1. Bisq
A decentralized bitcoin speech that allows you to commercialized bitcoin for dollars, euros oregon shitcoins straight with different idiosyncratic without providing intimate idiosyncratic accusation to an exchange.
A community-focused wallet that has an casual interface that relies connected a multisig custodian with keys held by trusted assemblage members.
3. Bitcoin Core
The notation lawsuit and backbone of the bitcoin web — some a node and a wallet.
4. Blixt Wallet
A almighty yet user-friendly Lightning wallet disposable connected Android and iOS.
5. Blue Wallet
A almighty mobile wallet disposable connected some Android and iPhone that is some casual to usage and has powerfulness idiosyncratic features including multisig.
6. Braiins OS
A customized firmware that gives users much power implicit their bitcoin mining ASICs, including a much profitable instrumentality connected investment.
7. Breez Wallet
An easy-to-use Lightning wallet disposable connected Android and iPhone that includes podcasting 2.0 and point-of-sale capability.
A point-of-sale strategy that lets users judge bitcoin for goods and services easy and reliably.
9. C-Lightning
One of the large Lightning implementations, which leverages plugins to springiness you further features and control.
10. Eclair
A mobile-focused Scala-based Lightning implementation.
11. Electrs
An casual and performant mode to usage your ain Bitcoin node with a assortment of wallets and tools. Electra is built into astir dedicated full-node implementations.
12. Electrum
A almighty desktop wallet that tin beryllium utilized successful a assortment of antithetic ways including with hardware wallets, multisig and Lightning.
13. Immortan
A minimal, privacy-focused, opinionated Lightning Network protocol implementation aimed specifically to powerfulness Lite Lightning nodes, which are mostly to beryllium recovered connected mobile phones oregon desktop computers and lone tally backstage channels.
14. JoinMarket
A decentralized CoinJoin implementation that provides users further privateness done the operation of collaborative transactions without a centralized server.
15. LDK
A room that allows you to physique a Lightning node without worrying astir implementing low-level Lightning logic correctly. LDK is based connected Rust-Lightning, a full-featured but besides incredibly flexible Lightning implementation, allowing you to determine however to usage it.
16. LNBits
A level that makes it casual to integrate Lightning successful a wide assortment of situations.
17. LND
The astir fashionable Lightning Network implementation presently available.
18. Mempool
A nonstop presumption connected the existent authorities of the Bitcoin web that tin beryllium easy utilized with your ain node.
19. Mercury Wallet
A privacy-focused wallet that uses a conception called statechains to alteration users to swap bitcoin off-chain with minimal fees.
20. Muun Wallet
An highly easy-to-use mobile wallet connected some Android and iPhone that works with some accepted bitcoin payments and Lightning.
21. Nix-Bitcoin
A postulation of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easy installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an accent connected security.
22. Nodl
A almighty yet easy-to-run, 24/7 Bitcoin node.
23. RaspiBlitz
A Bitcoin full-node implementation that makes it casual to usage Lightning and JoinMarket.
24. RoninDojo
A Bitcoin full-node implementation that supports Electrum and casual Samourai wallet integration via QR codification and Tor.
25. Samourai Wallet
A privacy-focused Android wallet that makes it casual to usage collaborative transactions to amended privateness connected chain. Samourai besides makes it casual to usage your ain node with a QR codification pairing process and Tor.
26. SeedSigner
A hardware wallet with a surface and camera that you tin physique yourself for astir $50. If you privation a larger surface and astute paper support, you tin physique a Specter successful a DIY wat for astir $250.
27. Sparrow Wallet
A full-featured desktop wallet that is compatible with Electrum servers. It works with each large hardware wallets, including multisig configurations, and has built successful PayNym, PayJoin and Whirlpool CoinJoin support.
28. Specter Wallet
A desktop wallet that makes it casual to usage immoderate hardware wallet with your ain node, including multisig configurations.
29. Tor
A web focused connected preventing surveillance and censorship that is often utilized by Bitcoin projects.
30. Zeus
The easiest mode to interact with your ain Lightning afloat node connected Android and iPhone.
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