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New to Bitcoin open-source? Apply for a Starter Grant


About you

The ideal applicant should have made the jump from “good first issues” to contribute more meaningful PRs and Reviews, and maintain a reasonable quality of work while meeting these criteria:

  • Have chosen a specific Bitcoin open-source project to contribute to and made several non-trivial code contributions

    • Non-trivial review: has contributed multiple helpful insights on others' work and helped to move code that is not their own forward

    • Non-trivial PRs: at least five merged code-based PR (excluding documentation changes) that is not labelled as a "good first issue".

    • Non-trivial contributions: multiple helpful responses on issues, input on discussions, participation in community (project or otherwise, like BitDevs)

  • Have a clear plan outlining what you want to work on over the next six months

  • Be willing to commit full-time to contributing to open-source projects during the six-month grant period

  • Positive reviews from at least two mentors or contributors on the project.


  • Meet all the requirements above? Click on Apply now below to send in your application.