Practical work, clearly explained

Make something
worth showing.

Six guides for finding your direction, building portfolio evidence and contributing to Bitcoin. Start with the outcome you want to reach.

Career essentials

Build a Bitcoin CV that shows your work.

Organize your experience around specific contributions, evidence and availability.

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Learning path

From learning to contribution.

A practical route through Bitcoin fundamentals, tools and your first useful project.

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Developer project

Build a Lightning payment lab.

Create a small, reproducible test project with payment-state handling and meaningful failure tests.

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Designer project

Make a wallet design case study.

Turn one payment flow into a prototype, research plan and honest portfolio story.

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Open source

Make your first useful contribution.

Find a manageable task, produce reviewable evidence and work with project maintainers.

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Funding

Write a focused Bitcoin grant proposal.

Define the public benefit, milestones, evidence and budget behind a proposal.

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Bring your own tools. Find a few new ones.

The resource library connects these guides to the projects, documentation and communities behind them.

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