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Giving back to Bitcoin, the ebook

In partnership with Brink and OpenSats, we’re sharing an ebook based on a new survey with 477 respondents about how Bitcoin development works, how it’...

Supporting Bitcoin development with a $100K Brink grant

While much has changed since bitcoin was first mined in 2009, much has also stayed the same — like Bitcoin being open source, decentralized, and built...

Meet João Barbosa, our new open source developer grant recipient

We asked five questions to João Barbosa, the latest recipient of our open source developer grant, on Bitcoin development and the improvement of the Bi...

Antoine Riard grant

Introducing Bitcoin and Lightning developer Antoine Riard, our latest grant recipient

“Lightning is the future of Bitcoin” — Okcoin’s newest Open-Source Developer Grant recipient on Lightning security and adoption. As par...

schnorr taproot Bitcoin Core update

How Schnorr/Taproot is Going to Change Bitcoin in 2021

A look at the three Bitcoin Improvement Proposals that make up the Bitcoin Core update, Schnorr/Taproot The version 0.21.0 of Bitcoin Core was rele...

OKCoin Bitcoin Development retrospective Bitcoin Core development funding

Looking Back: One Year of Funding Bitcoin Development

A retrospective of our initiative to support independent Bitcoin Core developers; our learnings and the future of Bitcoin funding It’s been just ov...

BTCPay Server Bitcoin E-Commerce OKCoin Developer Grant

How BTCPay Server is Building the Bitcoin E-commerce Infrastructure

BTCPay Server expands their ability to bring Bitcoin’s values to global e-commerce with Shopify integration The BTCPay Server team, one of OK...

Amiti Uttarwar Bitcoin Core developer - OKCoin Open-Source Developer Grant

Amiti Uttarwar’s Work to Improve the Privacy of Bitcoin Nodes

Bitcoin Core Developer Amiti Uttarwar is focused on improving aspects of Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer layer by addressing the tension between reliability an...

Bitcoin vs. DeFi: Two Unique Development Cultures

Despite sharing similar objectives, Bitcoin and DeFi have very different development cultures, especially when it comes to security The development...

Interview: Auditing the Bitcoin Supply with Fabian Jahr’s Coinstats Index

In this episode of OK Let’s Chat, host Alex Feinberg talks to Bitcoin Core developer Fabian Jahr about the importance of his Bitcoin UTXO set project,...