Matthew Zipkin

Matthew Zipkin, a Bitcoin open-source developer focused on education, and Stacie Waleyko, also an open-source developer with backend experience, delve into the crucial role of community participation in Bitcoin. They discuss the various layers of Bitcoin development and the urgent need for more contributors. Highlighting innovative educational tools, they share success stories from their initiatives aimed at welcoming diverse backgrounds into the ecosystem. Passion and collaboration are emphasized as key drivers for advancing Bitcoin technology.

Matthew Zipkin, Core developer at Chaincode Labs who runs the BOSS challenge program to train Bitcoin protocol contributors. He explains challenge-based training that filters for deep protocol literacy. Topics include hard coding tasks, low-level transaction and Lightning work, peer learning via Discord, and how programs funnel and retain promising developers.