About the Fellowship
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 innovative open-source software or leading an educational initiative, 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 Development Career or delve into Educational Initiatives within the Bitcoin Community. If you’re passionate about Bitcoin development and education, you indeed belong here.
How to join? Interested? Start contributing to the below-listed projects, or sketch your own tech/non-tech education program. Then shoot us a formal application via the below form with your details and describe why you want to be part of the Bitcoin movement. We'll review your application and get in touch to discuss how you can contribute to our projects or lead new initiatives.
Explore Dev Projects
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.
Silent-Payment Library
A Typescript wallet library implementing all the silent-payment primitives.
Language:
Typescript
Silent Payment Indexer
A Typescript project to build various mechanisms of fetching the SP indexes.
Language:
Typescript
Coinseletion
A rust library bringing the Bitcoin Core’s coinselection algorithms to the wallet development world.A crucial missing piece of Bitcoin wallet infrastructure.
Language:
Rust
Bitcoin Core Review
An ongoing Review Club to get all the aspiring core devs get startedin the dense jungle of Bitcoin Core.
Language:
C++
Python
Coinswap
Functioning, minimal-viable binaries and libraries to perform a trustless, p2p Maxwell-Belcher Coinswap Protocol
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Rust
Explore Our Education Programs
Got a fresh idea for a technical educational project? We’d love to hear it! Below, we showcase initiatives our Catalysts are already pursuing—use these as inspiration to forge your own path. Share your vision, and let’s collaborate to make a real impact.
Latest in Bitcoin Tech
Hosted By : Faisal
A weekly Optech deep-dive session. Where we explore all the cutting edges of Bitcoin technology with fellow learners.
Hands-On Lightning
Hosted By : Aditya
A weekly tutorial-based Lightning dev training program. Ideal to kick start your lightning dev journey.
Bitcoin Reading Club
Hosted By : Shreyan
A general-purpose weekly Reading club to learn and build your non-technical Bitcoin knowledge.
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Our Fellows
Here are our driven individuals who are shaping the future of Bitcoin through innovation and education.
Developers
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 protocol jungle of atomic swaps.
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. Also our youngest fellow.
Bala
A material scientist who writes Bitcoin code in free time. He has been picking fights with some hardcore algorithms of selecting coins, in the hope of making a wallet dev’s life easier one day. Only if they knew.
Educators
Faisal
The dude that came out of nowhere and busted the myth of “you need a technical background to do Bitcoin”. The only caveman who completed all four Bitshala study cohorts with 100% attendance. Then decided to take it to the next level by becoming the host of the Bitcoin Optech Study Club.
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.