Code Orange Dev School is a Bitcoin-only developer education program. Most sessions run online, with some in-person workshops. We run study cohorts, workshops and meetups for developers and technical Bitcoiners who want to learn Bitcoin and contribute to its open-source software. All curriculum is free and CC0-licensed.
- Join the Discord and say hi.
- Pick a program that matches your level: Bitcoin Dojo (cryptographic primitives), rawBit (raw transactions), Decoding Bitcoin (protocol and Bitcoin Core workflows), or the Privacy Track (drop-in sessions).
- Find a first contribution. The Privacy Track explains how to find a current beginner issue and check it's still open before you start.
Full syllabi, exercises and facilitator guides are in the curriculum repo.
- Bitcoin Dojo (7 weeks): build Bitcoin's cryptographic primitives with Jimmy Song's Programming Bitcoin. Exercises are graded against real mainnet transactions.
- rawBit Study Cohort (10 weeks): build raw transactions with rawBit, an open-source visual transaction builder.
- Decoding Bitcoin (8 weeks): transactions, Script, Taproot, PSBTs and the Bitcoin Core contribution workflow.
- Sovereign Bitcoiner (5-10 weeks): full nodes, mining with BitAxe, multisig and inheritance planning.
- Privacy Track (biweekly, drop-in): Silent Payments, chain analysis, coin selection, Payjoin, light clients, network privacy, CoinJoin and swaps, Lightning and ecash.
- Vibe Coding on Nostr (monthly): building on Nostr with Lightning integrations.
Hands-on workshops in Bali and online, in English and Indonesian. Topics include BitAxe mining, multisig and key management, running a full node, ecash (Fedimint, Cashu), Nostr, BTCPay Server and privacy tools. Slides and guides are open-source (see below), and the workshops repo documents past sessions.
People in the Code Orange community contribute to Bitcoin open-source projects. Every PR we list is linked and checked weekly against GitHub on the PR tracking dashboard, which is the single place for up-to-date numbers.
| Contributor | GitHub | Projects with a merged PR |
|---|---|---|
| Peter | @pzafonte | Bitcoin Core, rust-bitcoin, kernel-node, rust-bitcoinkernel, BDK |
| Vaan | @va-an | rust-payjoin, payjoin.org, bdk-cli, rust-bitcoin, bdk_wallet, esplora-cli |
| Diegodev | @0xlaga | Master Bitcoin From Command Line |
| Dayvvo | @dayvvo | Alby bitcoin-connect, Alby js-sdk |
| Psychemist | @psychemist | LDK, Mastering Taproot, bitcointranscripts, Saving Satoshi |
| Muhammad | @muhahahmad68 | Bitcoin Core, rust-bitcoin, Floresta, bdk_wallet, Cove wallet, SeedSigner |
| Razor | @RazorBest | peer-observer, corepc, bitcointranscripts |
| Arowolo | @Arowolokehinde | Mostro, rust-payjoin |
| Gradale | @alexgrad42 | rust-bitcoin, hex-conservative, corepc |
| Alex Xie | @alexxie16 | OpenTollGate |
| Mwihoti | @mwihoti | rust-payjoin |
Projects with a merged PR, as listed on the dashboard (excluding work from before the contributor joined Code Orange). The work belongs to its authors; Code Orange provides study groups, mentoring and community.
All material is CC0 (public domain): use it, fork it, translate it and teach with it.
- curriculum: syllabi, exercises and facilitator guides for all programs
- PR-tracking-dashboard: linked PRs by community members, checked weekly
- fellowships: developer and educator fellowship program documents
- workshops: workshop archive and materials
- Workshop slides and guides: Bitcoin Basics (5 beginner sessions) · privacy · mining · full node · Sovereign Bitcoiner · mastermind guide · seed phrase backup sheet
- Discord: join
- Website: codeorange.dev
- X: @CodeOrangeDevs
- Instagram: @codeorangedevs
- Nostr: npub1gxqy...
- Support: Geyser Fund
Founded by Keypleb.
