Developers to follow
Adam Soltys - Building coinos, an open source web wallet and decentralized exchange platform that can be self-hosted and supports on-chain payments, Liquid, Lightning, atomic swaps, send-to-username, redeemable vouchers, paper wallets, and more!
Alex Bosworth - Alex has been working on Lightning integrations across the Bitcoin industry since 2017 and has focused at Lightning Labs on supporting LN and LND adoption with Lightning Labs product and services development such as the popular Lightning Loop submarine swap service based on the non-custodial submarine swap concept. Alex is currently working on advances made possible by the Taproot and Schnorr soft fork as well as the new TARO concept for digital assets.
Andrew Poelstra - Andrew has been part of the Bitcoin community since 2011, and has contributed to the development of signature tech such as MuSig, Taproot, and Miniscript. He was also a maintainer of libsecp256k1, the high-assurance high-performance library underlying Bitcoin Core, for several years. Lately he has been focused on self-custody in the form of "codex32", a project to create and verify strong checksums on seed data without any use of electronic computers.
Ben Woosley - Contributing and reviewing changes to Bitcoin Core and Zap desktop wallet since 2017.
Bruno Garcia - Bitcoin Core contributor, focusing on reviewing/testing pull requests, improving/adding tests, and writing new features
BTC Zelko - Bitcoin Privacy and Sovereignty activist. Started the FOSS Bitcoin node manager, RoninDojo, in 2019, with a strict focus of on-chain privacy tools for users to protect themselves from surveillance state.
Burak - Burak started in Bitcoin by building around mining, payments, wallets, developer tools, and Bitcoin-style smart contracts. After his years-long covenant research and development on Liquid, he is now working on alternative approaches to addressing the UX issues that we face on Lightning today.
Craig Raw - Craig is the sole developer of Sparrow Wallet, a Bitcoin only desktop wallet with a focus on security, privacy and usability. His work aims to provide users with a rich interface that provides full control and transparency over their funds, while being simple enough for beginners to start and grow their understanding over time.
d11n - Improving the UX/UI of Bitcoin-related projects. Currently working full-time on BTCPay Server.
Daniel Buchner - Committed to advancing decentralized identity and app capabilities for the Web platform to enable a more personal, private, empowering digital world for individuals.
dergigi - Contributes to various bitcoin-only projects and wrote an open-source book about what I’ve learned.
DJ Booth - Creator of the bitcoin-only crowdfunding platform Tallycoin and the beautiful and fun price chart Bitcoinal.
Dusty Daemon - Independent Lighting developer Dusty Daemon has spent the last six years working on Bitcoin development. His recent code, an implementation on the Lighting network called “Splicing,” will fundamentally change the Lightning network.
Emzy - Contribute to Bitcoin by running nodes like Bitcoin, Lighting, an Electrum server and nodes for the Bisq network.
Evan Kaloudis - Working on Bitcoin-related projects, first and foremost, the Bitcoin/Lightning mobile wallet Zeus.
Fabian Jahr - Bitcoin Core contributor. I focus on reviewing pull requests, fixing bugs, and occasionally adding new features, most notably coinstatsindex.
Greg Sanders - Contributes to the open source Bitcoin Core related repos, and other associated Bitcoin projects.
Jeremy Rubin - Founder of Judica, a bitcoin research and development organization focused on developing Sapio, a smart contract programming language for bitcoin.
Jon Atack - Concerned about human freedom, decentralization of power, individual empowerment, privacy and self-sovereignty
Justin Moon - Justin is the co-founder, and head of engineering at Fedi. He founded the Austin Bitdevs community for bitcoin developers. Pioneer in the bitcoin ecosystem, he ran the first online Bitcoin programming course, BUIDL Bootcamp, and received a Spiral grant for his research into Bitcoin custody R&D.
Keith Mukai - Early contributor to the Specter Desktop wallet software. Now the lead volunteer dev on the incredibly fun SeedSigner open source DIY hardware wallet.
Kevin Mulcrone - Building Lily Wallet, a desktop application that makes it easy to secure and use your Bitcoin using the latest technologies.
Kristaps Kaupe - Maintainer of JoinMarket, contributing to Bitcoin Core, c-lightning and other projects.
Kukks - Working full-time on BTCPay Server, an open-source, self-hosted bitcoin payment processor that allows individuals and companies become self-sovereign.
Leo Wandersleb - Founder and maintainer of WalletScrutiny.com Luke Childs - Contributing to the browserify and BitcoinJS projects
Lightrider - Lightrider, an Open Source Lightning Web Developer and node operator active in the Lightning ecosystem for 5 years, is working at FULMO and Bitrefill. He created lnvpn.net, a Lightning-enabled VPN service, and ordimint.com, a web wallet and Ordinal inscription service.
Lisa Neigut - Lisa Neigut, aka niftynei, is a world-renowned bitcoin and lightning expert. A lightning protocol developer at Blockstream for Core Lightning by day, she leads Base58 bitcoin protocol classes at night.
Luke Dashjr - As the longest-contributing Bitcoin Core developer, I’ve been working on Bitcoin since the start of 2011, primarily involving ongoing development.