The topic of non-developer contributions to Bitcoin and Bitcoin Core came up in a thread the other day. So I wanted to elevate this list, in case people are interested. Ways to contribute other than code: Education / Outreach Optech Conferences Saving Satoshi Fundraising Bitdevs User feedback Reproducing issues Priorities? Security Dependency auditing CVE disclosure Mailing list Pen testing Dev Tooling CI Signet Fuzzing Drahtbot Corecheck,dev Bitcoin dev wiki Mentoring Developer hubs Review clubs Release Process Testing guide Building binaries Signing binaries translations Packaging for distro Monitoring b10c stuff etc Standardization BIPs Bolts etc Events Coredev Online communication channels Mailing list Delving IRC Twitter / etc Stack exchange

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin

Bitcoin

Backups of stuff Dev Infrastructure Fuzzing Devops stuff Dns seeds User feedback Outward Talk to miners? Exchanges? Surveys Research BRW Janitor work Reproducing Other items listed: Coredev conference BIPs (review, reading) Stack exchange CI Fuzzer machines Devops Monitoring

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin

Bitcoin

maintaining/hosting Signet / inquisition Utilities for interacting with Bitcoin (Core) Educational stuff like saving satoshi Delving Mailing list Backup of delving/mailing list/github comments IRC and logs Drahtbot / meetingbot Bitcoinacks (?) Fundraising Developer hubs Review clubs Technical talks / podcasts / outreach Bitdevs Deterministic builds (running) Dns seed Dependency auditing/pruning Architecture CI doesn’t account for Reproducing issues Moderation of github Research Week Twitter threads Translations Security Security mailing list CVE management / disclosure etc Pen testing

corecheck - Test Coverage

Core dev wiki Bitcoin wiki Summaries of communal knowledge Optech Release packaging for distros Janitoring old issues/PRs BOSS program Summer of Bitcoin Original:

Non-development Contributions