Awesome Bitcoin Core

A curated list of Bitcoin Core resources for contributors and developers.

Contents

• Communications
• Contributing to Bitcoin Core
• Documentation
• Explorers
• Learn C++
• Read
• Seminars & Talks
• Technical Learning
• Testing
• Tools
• Videos

Communications

• Bitcoin Core IRC channel - IRC channel for Bitcoin Core developers.
  • searchable archive
  • /ircmeetings/logs
  • logs
  • Misc IRC channel logs
• Bitcoin Core mailing list
• Bitcoin StackExchange

Contributing to Bitcoin Core

• Bitcoin Core PR Review Club - A weekly review club for Bitcoin Core PRs.
• Contributing guidelines
• Developer notes
• High-priority for review pull requests
• How to contribute pull requests
• On reviewing, and helping those who do it
• Productivity notes
• Debugging Bitcoin Core

Articles

• A gentle introduction to Bitcoin Core Development - By Jimmy Song.
• Contributing to Bitcoin Core, a personal account - By John Newbery.
• Onboarding to Bitcoin Core - By Amiti Uttarwar.

Notes by contributors

• Amiti Uttarwar's notes.
• Gloria Zhao's notes.
• Scripts, tools & info for doing Bitcoin Core development and code review - By Michael Ford.

Podcasts

• Becoming a Bitcoin Core Developer - With Amiti Uttarwar.
• Bitcoin Core Contribution - With Jon Atack.
• Brink: Bitcoin Development - With John Newbery.
• Funding Bitcoin Development - With John Newbery.
• Learning Bitcoin Core & Hosting PR Review Club - With Gloria Zhao.

Review Pull requests

• How to review a Bitcoin Core pull request - By Gloria Zhao (video).
• How to review pull requests - By Jon Atack.

Documentation

• Bitcoin Core Architecture

• Bitcoin Core Developer Documentation

• Onboarding to Bitcoin Core

Explorers

• 3xpl
• Blockchair
• Blockstream Explorer
• Mempool.space

Learn C++

• CppCon
• cpplearn.com
• cppreference.com
• C++ Core Guidelines

Read

• Bitcoin Core source code
• Bitcoin Optech
• Bitcoin Protocol Development Curriculum
• Bitcoin Transcripts
• bitcoin-dev blog
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction
• Mastering Bitcoin
• White paper

Seminars & Talks

• A Deep Dive with Bitcoin Core Developer Greg Maxwell
• Chaincode Labs - Weekly video calls diving deep into security concerns, adversarial thinking, and approaches to Bitcoin and Lightning protocol design.

Technical Learning

• learnmeabitcoin.com - By Greg Walker.
• Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line - By Blockchain Commons.
• TeachBitcoin - By James C.
• Understanding the Technical Side of Bitcoin - By Pierre Rochard.

Testing

• MarcoFalke's test coverage dashboard - Test coverage of Bitcoin Core.
• test/README.md - How to run the test suite.

Tools

• convos - A web-based IRC client.
• Mnemonic code converter
• Bitcoin Technical Search - A search engine tailored for technical bitcoin content.

Videos

• Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Free unbiased educational videos on all things Bitcoin and open blockchain.
• princeton.edu Bitcoin lectures
• Stephan Livera - Learn more about Bitcoin's economics & technology.
• The Bitcoin Lesson YouTube playlist explaining Mining, Transactions, Keys & Addresses, Script.