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<span style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #F7931A;"><span>/</span>Programs<span>/</span>Privacy_Track<span>_</span></span>
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<h1 style="font-family: 'Special Elite', 'Courier New', monospace; font-weight: 400; font-size: clamp(38px, 4.4vw, 62px); line-height: 1.05; letter-spacing: -0.02em; margin: 0 0 26px; color: #F5F1EA; text-wrap: pretty;">Bitcoin Privacy Developer Track. <span style="color: #F7931A;">Contribution-first, by design.</span></h1>
<p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.65; color: #C8CDD9; margin: 0 0 32px; max-width: 560px; text-wrap: pretty;">12 biweekly 90-minute sessions over 6 months, covering chain analysis, wallet fingerprinting, Silent Payments, Payjoin, Floresta, Kyoto, Lightning privacy, and a contribution sprint. Every session ends with a real open source contribution.</p>
<p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.65; color: #C8CDD9; margin: 0 0 32px; max-width: 560px; text-wrap: pretty;">12 biweekly 90-minute sessions over 6 months, opening with Silent Payments, then chain analysis, coin selection, Payjoin, light clients, network privacy, CoinJoin and swaps, Lightning, ecash, and a contribution sprint. Every session ends with real proof of work in an open-source privacy project.</p>
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<span style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 13px; color: #F7931A; padding: 8px 16px; border: 1px solid rgba(247,147,26,0.4); border-radius: 999px;">For Developers</span>
<span style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 13px; color: #C8CDD9; padding: 8px 16px; border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.16); border-radius: 999px;">6 months · biweekly</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8C94A6;">Duration</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Special Elite', monospace; font-size: 42px; line-height: 1; color: #F7931A;">5–8</span>
<span style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8C94A6;">PRs per graduate</span>
<span style="font-family: 'Special Elite', monospace; font-size: 42px; line-height: 1; color: #F7931A;">28</span>
<span style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8C94A6;">BIP352 test vectors</span>
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<div style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.16em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #F7931A; margin-bottom: 18px;"><span>/</span>GitHub_Curriculum<span>_</span></div>
<h2 style="font-family: 'Special Elite', 'Courier New', monospace; font-weight: 400; font-size: clamp(32px, 3.2vw, 50px); line-height: 1.08; margin: 0 0 18px; color: #F5F1EA;">Season One: 12 sessions, one contribution path.</h2>
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; color: #C8CDD9; margin: 0; text-wrap: pretty;">The public curriculum is now mapped on GitHub: each session teaches one Bitcoin privacy problem, then sends students into a curated issue pool so the work can become a real upstream pull request.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; color: #C8CDD9; margin: 0; text-wrap: pretty;">The public curriculum is now mapped on GitHub: each session teaches one Bitcoin privacy problem, then ends with proof of work: a lab, a tested PR, or an issue from a curated pool that can become a real upstream contribution.</p>
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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Special Elite', monospace; font-size: 32px; color: #F7931A; line-height: 1;">PR</span>
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<a href="https://github.com/code-orange-dev/curriculum/blob/main/privacy-track/SESSIONS.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; color: #C8CDD9; text-decoration: none;">Full guide →</a>
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<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 1</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Chain Analysis; Wallet Fingerprinting</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 2</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Coin Selection and UTXO Management; Silent Payments</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 3</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Payjoin; Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 4</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">P2P Privacy and Node Fingerprinting; ASmap and Network Attacks</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 5</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">CoinJoin with JoinMarket; OpenSwap</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px;"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 6</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Lightning Privacy; Contribution Sprint</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 1</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Silent Payments I: build a sender; Silent Payments II: build a scanner</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 2</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Silent Payments III: Review Club on Bitcoin Core; Think Like the Adversary (chain analysis &amp; fingerprinting)</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 3</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Coin Selection &amp; Change; Payjoin</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 4</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto; Network Privacy: Tor, BIP324, private broadcast, ASmap</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.07);"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 5</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">CoinJoin &amp; OpenSwap; Lightning Privacy</p></div>
<div style="padding: 20px 22px;"><b style="color:#F5F1EA;">Month 6</b><p style="margin: 6px 0 0; color:#C8CDD9;">Ecash: Cashu &amp; Fedimint; Contribution Sprint</p></div>
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<h2 style="font-family: 'Special Elite', 'Courier New', monospace; font-weight: 400; font-size: clamp(30px, 3vw, 44px); line-height: 1.12; margin: 0 0 20px; color: #F5F1EA;">Every session ends with a contribution. <span style="color: #F7931A;">No exceptions.</span></h2>
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; color: #C8CDD9; margin: 0; max-width: 560px; text-wrap: pretty;">Not "homework." Not "exercises." A contribution: a PR, a review, an issue triage, a docs fix - something with your name on it, in a real Bitcoin privacy repo, before you log off. Over 12 focused sessions that compounds into a public contribution record no CV can fake.</p>
<h2 style="font-family: 'Special Elite', 'Courier New', monospace; font-weight: 400; font-size: clamp(30px, 3vw, 44px); line-height: 1.12; margin: 0 0 20px; color: #F5F1EA;">Every session ends with proof of work. <span style="color: #F7931A;">Useful, not noisy.</span></h2>
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; color: #C8CDD9; margin: 0; max-width: 560px; text-wrap: pretty;">Not "homework." Proof of work: a lab passing the official test vectors, a PR you built and tested, a reproduced bug, a docs fix, a pull request from our curated pool. Nothing goes upstream unless a maintainer would be glad to receive it. Over 12 sessions that compounds into a public contribution record no CV can fake.</p>
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<span style="color: #8C94A6;"># session checklist</span>
<span style="color: #C8CDD9;">[x] deep-dive - 90 min</span>
<span style="color: #C8CDD9;">[x] pair on open issues</span>
<span style="color: #F7931A;">[x] ship contribution ✓</span>
<span style="color: #8C94A6;">── merged or it didn't happen</span>
<span style="color: #C8CDD9;">[x] review a live PR together</span>
<span style="color: #F7931A;">[x] ship proof of work ✓</span>
<span style="color: #8C94A6;">── tested or it didn't happen</span>
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<div style="font-family: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.12em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #FF5F56; margin-bottom: 20px;">✕ It's not for you if</div>
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<span>→ You're brand new to programming - do <a href="/rawbit" style="color: #F7931A; text-decoration: none;" style-hover="color: #FFB347;">rawBit</a> first</span>
<span>→ You want theory without shipping - every session ends in a contribution</span>
<span>→ You want theory without shipping - every session ends in proof of work</span>
<span>→ You can't commit to a 6-month arc - this is contribution-first by design</span>
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