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Vancouver Bitcoin Builder #2 - January 27th: Funk Coffee

Here are some important links for you to follow: 

https://www.bitcoinbuidlr.xyz/

Bitcoin Design Community

https://bitcoin.design/

2026 Initiatives 

https://bitcoin.design/projects/

Beginner Lightning Wallets

https://phoenix.acinq.co/

https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/

Money Dev Kit

https://moneydevkit.com/

https://x.com/moneydevkit

Human Bitcoin Addresses

https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/making-bitcoin-speak-human

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW54GZx3gVw

Presidio Bitcoin Jam

https://open.spotify.com/show/0N8ZFqAkTwxNmjDXdIo7cT

https://www.youtube.com/@PresidioBitcoin

Awesome - we should get the other Builder communities and have a discussion in Feb.

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Yes! Still a WIP, hoping to do a refresh soon. 

https://www.bitcoinbuidlr.xyz/

Still lots of ideas for how to improve the concept of Builder.

Builder is a global network of community-driven chapters focused on Bitcoin education, Lightning Network development, and Layer 2 exploration. 

Our chapters bring together developers, enthusiasts, and curious minds to learn, build, and advance Bitcoin technology together. 

Each chapter operates independently while sharing knowledge, resources, and best practices across the network.

https://www.bitcoinbuidlr.xyz/

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This ₿uilder meetup is dedicated to the active design initiatives shaping Bitcoin’s future — and how builders can meaningfully participate in them.

Schedule:

5:00 - 6:00 PM : Open Networking
6:00 PM - Introduction
6:15 PM - 7:00 PM : 2026 Initiative Discussion
7:00 - 7:15 : Money Dev Kit Demo
7:15 - 8:00 : TBD

The Bitcoin Design Community has laid out an ambitious, open slate of work: reference wallets, design systems, protocol-level UX contributions, human-readable addresses, privacy, inheritance, Layer-2 consistency, vibe-coding workflows, and more.

At this event, we will walk through the current design initiatives in concrete terms:

What problems they are trying to solve

Where they are in their lifecycle (planning, alpha, advocacy)

What skills are actually needed right now

How designers, developers, and product thinkers can plug in

We will discuss flagship efforts like:

Reference Wallets as an aspirational UX bar for the ecosystem

Bitcoin Builder Kits and vibe-coding in an AI-native world

Human Bitcoin Addresses (BIP-353) and the future of usability

Design at the protocol layer (BIPs, BOLTs, NIPs)

Consistency across Layer-2s without leaking complexity into UX

Privacy, inheritance, and multi-party custody as design problems, not just cryptographic ones

To ground the conversation in execution, we’ll also look at Money Dev Kit as an example of how design intent becomes real-world payment flows. We’ll examine how developer tooling, abstractions, and defaults directly influence user trust, comprehension, and adoption — especially for Lightning and instant payments.

This is a working session for people who want to:

Design Bitcoin products that normal humans can use

Contribute to open initiatives with global impact

Align design, protocol, and payments into coherent systems

Help decide what Bitcoin becomes, not just how it looks

Who this is for

Designers who want to work on meaningful, open Bitcoin problems

Engineers building wallets, payments, or protocol-adjacent tools

Product managers translating user needs into Bitcoin constraints

Builders curious where to contribute time, talent, or code

Bitcoin is money for everyone — but it is also yours.
This meetup is about deciding, together, what we design it to be.