Contribute to Bitcoin FOSS
projects or host
education
initiatives with fellowship program.
Your journey to making a
significant impact in the
Bitcoin world starts
here!
What is it? The Bitshala Fellowship Program is a unique opportunity for you to take your first step and dive into working in the Bitcoin FOSS ecosystem. Whether it’s developing open-source software, designing innovative UI/UX, or hosting an educational club, here's where your contributions to Bitcoin begin, and an enlightening career.
Who is it for? This program is for people who are eager to kickstart their Bitcoin Career, whether a dev, designer, or educator. If you’re passionate about Bitcoin, have the skill sets, tired of fiat jobs, and are motivated to contribute to the ecosystem. You will fit right in.
How to join? Interested? Start contributing to the below-listed projects, or sketch your own tech/non-tech education program. Then shoot us an application via the below form with your details. We'll review your application and get in touch to discuss further.
Here are open-source projects ready for your innovation and expertise. Each project offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the Bitcoin community's growth and development.
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Got a fresh idea for a technical educational project? We’d love to hear it! Below, we showcase initiatives our Educators are already pursuing — use these as inspiration to forge your own path. Share your vision, and let’s collaborate to make a real impact.
Weekly Bitcoin Optech deep-dives where bitcoin enthusiasts explore the latest developments and happenings in the Bitcoin tech world
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General-purpose reading club to help build your non-tech Bitcoin knowledge. Here we dive deep into rabbit holes on philosophy, economics, and more
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Bi-weekly reviews to get into the weeds of Bitcoin Core. Ideal for aspiring Core Devs to learn hands-on and sharpen their dev skills along the way
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Bi-weekly reviews to get into the weeds of Bitcoin Core. Ideal for aspiring Core Devs to learn hands-on and sharpen their dev skills along the way
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Here are our driven individuals who are shaping the future of Bitcoin through innovation and education.
Developers
Yuvic
Balancing late-night coding with cramming for finals, because contributing to Bitcoin Core is more exciting than college exams.
Probot
Introverted enough to avoid eye contact but bold enough to host Bitcoin Core PR review clubs — because socializing is easier when it's about Bitcoin.
Rishab
Bitcoin researcher by day, cypherpunk by night—because who needs hobbies when you have Bitcoin?
Tremploar
Still in college, but already knows Bitcoin FOSS will pay off long before that diploma does.
Claddy
Two-time Summer of Bitcoin alumni, finding his way through the jungle of Open Source. Has become a valuable contributor to Coinswap.
Whoami
The silent backbencher known for putting his head down and just build. Seeing this we immediately offered him a fellowship.
Joshua
From the land of the lion king, Joshua is contributing to making Bitcoin donations more private with the magic of Silent Payment.
Rajat
They say there is no right way to start in Bitcoin. Being a Civil Engg didn’t stop this little guy from spinning big code.
Bala
A material scientist doing Bitcoin Research in his free time. Whether it’s decentralized mining or the depths of covenant proposals. Bala is our in-house expert.
Educators
Shreyan
A lawyer by profession who just can't stop talking about Bitcoin. So he turned his madness into a sats stacking mechanism via Bitshala Fellowship and started the first Bitshala Reading Club. The modern-time Bitcoin story reader with a captive audience.
Aditya
The lightning developer who got sad because he didn’t have any lightning friends, and decided to take matters into his own hands. He hosts the Hands-on Lightning session every Tuesday where he won’t let you sleep until you make a CLN plugin from scratch.
Alumni
Faisal
The dude that came out of nowhere and busted the myth of “you need to be technical to do Bitcoin”. A veteran of all four Bitshala Study Cohorts as a Top Performer. Currently the host at Bitcoin Optech Study Club, Program Manager, and TA at Bitshala.
Bit-aloo
A young dev bored within the old mammoths of Oracle, decided to take Bitcoin’s fungibility problem seriously and moving the proverbial mountains of the complex protocols from mining to atomic swaps.
