Bitcoin Privacy Developer Track. Contribution-first, by design.
-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.
+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.
Duration
/GitHub_Curriculum_
Season One: 12 sessions, one contribution path.
-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.
+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.
months
@@ -180,12 +180,12 @@ Full guide →
- Month 1Chain Analysis; Wallet Fingerprinting
- Month 2Coin Selection and UTXO Management; Silent Payments
- Month 3Payjoin; Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto
- Month 4P2P Privacy and Node Fingerprinting; ASmap and Network Attacks
- Month 5CoinJoin with JoinMarket; OpenSwap
- Month 6Lightning Privacy; Contribution Sprint
+ Month 1Silent Payments I: build a sender; Silent Payments II: build a scanner
+ Month 2Silent Payments III: Review Club on Bitcoin Core; Think Like the Adversary (chain analysis & fingerprinting)
+ Month 3Coin Selection & Change; Payjoin
+ Month 4Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto; Network Privacy: Tor, BIP324, private broadcast, ASmap
+ Month 5CoinJoin & OpenSwap; Lightning Privacy
+ Month 6Ecash: Cashu & Fedimint; Contribution Sprint
@@ -203,15 +203,15 @@
- Every session ends with a contribution. No exceptions.
- 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.
+ Every session ends with proof of work. Useful, not noisy.
+ 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.
# session checklist
[x] deep-dive - 90 min
- [x] pair on open issues
- [x] ship contribution ✓
- ── merged or it didn't happen
+ [x] review a live PR together
+ [x] ship proof of work ✓
+ ── tested or it didn't happen
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ ✕ It's not for you if
→ You're brand new to programming - do rawBit first
- → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in a contribution
+ → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in proof of work
→ You can't commit to a 6-month arc - this is contribution-first by design
@@ -335,12 +335,12 @@
class Component extends DCLogic {
modules = [
- { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Chain analysis and wallet fingerprints', desc: 'Learn the common heuristics used to follow funds, then identify the subtle transaction patterns wallets leak.', repos: ['rust-bitcoin', 'BDK', 'issue pool'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Coin selection and Silent Payments', desc: 'Work through UTXO management, change detection, and BIP352 receiving flows that prevent address reuse.', repos: ['BDK', 'silent payments', 'BIP352'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Payjoin and light clients', desc: 'Break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions, then study compact-filter clients with Floresta and Kyoto.', repos: ['rust-payjoin', 'Floresta', 'Kyoto'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'P2P privacy and network attacks', desc: 'Map node fingerprinting, transaction broadcast leakage, ASmap, and eclipse-style attacks into practical contribution targets.', repos: ['Floresta', 'bitcoin-core', 'ASmap'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin and OpenSwap', desc: 'Explore collaborative transaction systems with JoinMarket and OpenSwap, focusing on docs, tests, and integration issues.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'privacy docs'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Lightning privacy and contribution sprint', desc: 'Close with Lightning privacy, review readiness, and a sprint that turns prepared issues into polished upstream PRs.', repos: ['LDK', 'issue pool', 'PR checklist'] }
+ { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Silent Payments: build it', desc: 'Build a BIP352 sender and scanner from scratch, graded against the official test vectors, then compare full-node, indexer and remote-scanner privacy trade-offs.', repos: ['BIP352', 'Shroud', 'BlindBit'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Silent Payments in Core, then think like the adversary', desc: 'Review the live Bitcoin Core Silent Payments PRs as a Review Club, then learn the chain-analysis heuristics and wallet fingerprints used to follow funds.', repos: ['bitcoin-core', 'libsecp256k1', 'BDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Coin selection and Payjoin', desc: 'Work through UTXO management and change, then break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions.', repos: ['BDK', 'rust-payjoin', 'issue pool'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'Light clients and network privacy', desc: 'Run your own node with Floresta and Kyoto, then use Bitcoin Core 31 private broadcast, BIP324 and ASmap against network surveillance.', repos: ['Floresta', 'Kyoto', 'peer-observer'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin, OpenSwap and Lightning privacy', desc: 'Autopsy a CoinJoin, complete an atomic swap on regtest, then compare what BOLT11 and BOLT12 blinded paths leak.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'LDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Ecash and the contribution sprint', desc: 'Mint and redeem ecash on a test mint, then close with a sprint that turns prepared issues and test reports into polished upstream work.', repos: ['Cashu', 'Fedimint', 'PR checklist'] }
];
repos = [
diff --git a/privacy-track/index.html b/privacy-track/index.html
index 47f633e..1248194 100644
--- a/privacy-track/index.html
+++ b/privacy-track/index.html
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
Bitcoin Privacy Developer Track - Code Orange Dev School
-
+
-
+
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@
-
+
-
+
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
/Programs/Privacy_Track_
Bitcoin Privacy Developer Track. Contribution-first, by design.
- 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.
+ 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.
For Developers
6 months · biweekly
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ Duration
- 5–8
- PRs per graduate
+ 28
+ BIP352 test vectors
10+
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ /GitHub_Curriculum_
Season One: 12 sessions, one contribution path.
- 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.
+ 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.
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ months
- PR
- per session
+ 1
+ live PR review / session
@@ -180,12 +180,12 @@ Full guide →
- Month 1Chain Analysis; Wallet Fingerprinting
- Month 2Coin Selection and UTXO Management; Silent Payments
- Month 3Payjoin; Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto
- Month 4P2P Privacy and Node Fingerprinting; ASmap and Network Attacks
- Month 5CoinJoin with JoinMarket; OpenSwap
- Month 6Lightning Privacy; Contribution Sprint
+ Month 1Silent Payments I: build a sender; Silent Payments II: build a scanner
+ Month 2Silent Payments III: Review Club on Bitcoin Core; Think Like the Adversary (chain analysis & fingerprinting)
+ Month 3Coin Selection & Change; Payjoin
+ Month 4Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto; Network Privacy: Tor, BIP324, private broadcast, ASmap
+ Month 5CoinJoin & OpenSwap; Lightning Privacy
+ Month 6Ecash: Cashu & Fedimint; Contribution Sprint
@@ -203,15 +203,15 @@
- Every session ends with a contribution. No exceptions.
- 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.
+ Every session ends with proof of work. Useful, not noisy.
+ 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.
# session checklist
[x] deep-dive - 90 min
- [x] pair on open issues
- [x] ship contribution ✓
- ── merged or it didn't happen
+ [x] review a live PR together
+ [x] ship proof of work ✓
+ ── tested or it didn't happen
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ ✕ It's not for you if
→ You're brand new to programming - do rawBit first
- → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in a contribution
+ → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in proof of work
→ You can't commit to a 6-month arc - this is contribution-first by design
@@ -335,12 +335,12 @@
class Component extends DCLogic {
modules = [
- { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Chain analysis and wallet fingerprints', desc: 'Learn the common heuristics used to follow funds, then identify the subtle transaction patterns wallets leak.', repos: ['rust-bitcoin', 'BDK', 'issue pool'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Coin selection and Silent Payments', desc: 'Work through UTXO management, change detection, and BIP352 receiving flows that prevent address reuse.', repos: ['BDK', 'silent payments', 'BIP352'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Payjoin and light clients', desc: 'Break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions, then study compact-filter clients with Floresta and Kyoto.', repos: ['rust-payjoin', 'Floresta', 'Kyoto'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'P2P privacy and network attacks', desc: 'Map node fingerprinting, transaction broadcast leakage, ASmap, and eclipse-style attacks into practical contribution targets.', repos: ['Floresta', 'bitcoin-core', 'ASmap'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin and OpenSwap', desc: 'Explore collaborative transaction systems with JoinMarket and OpenSwap, focusing on docs, tests, and integration issues.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'privacy docs'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Lightning privacy and contribution sprint', desc: 'Close with Lightning privacy, review readiness, and a sprint that turns prepared issues into polished upstream PRs.', repos: ['LDK', 'issue pool', 'PR checklist'] }
+ { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Silent Payments: build it', desc: 'Build a BIP352 sender and scanner from scratch, graded against the official test vectors, then compare full-node, indexer and remote-scanner privacy trade-offs.', repos: ['BIP352', 'Shroud', 'BlindBit'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Silent Payments in Core, then think like the adversary', desc: 'Review the live Bitcoin Core Silent Payments PRs as a Review Club, then learn the chain-analysis heuristics and wallet fingerprints used to follow funds.', repos: ['bitcoin-core', 'libsecp256k1', 'BDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Coin selection and Payjoin', desc: 'Work through UTXO management and change, then break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions.', repos: ['BDK', 'rust-payjoin', 'issue pool'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'Light clients and network privacy', desc: 'Run your own node with Floresta and Kyoto, then use Bitcoin Core 31 private broadcast, BIP324 and ASmap against network surveillance.', repos: ['Floresta', 'Kyoto', 'peer-observer'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin, OpenSwap and Lightning privacy', desc: 'Autopsy a CoinJoin, complete an atomic swap on regtest, then compare what BOLT11 and BOLT12 blinded paths leak.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'LDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Ecash and the contribution sprint', desc: 'Mint and redeem ecash on a test mint, then close with a sprint that turns prepared issues and test reports into polished upstream work.', repos: ['Cashu', 'Fedimint', 'PR checklist'] }
];
repos = [
diff --git a/tools/generate-pages.mjs b/tools/generate-pages.mjs
index 18549c1..b21dc9a 100644
--- a/tools/generate-pages.mjs
+++ b/tools/generate-pages.mjs
@@ -47,15 +47,15 @@ const programs = [
title: "Bitcoin Privacy Track",
type: "Developer Cohort",
audience: "For Developers",
- duration: "12 months",
+ duration: "6 months",
schedule: "Bi-weekly sessions",
format: "Online, Discord",
level: "Advanced",
href: "/privacy-track",
image: "/assets/new-workshops/workshop-hands-on-devices.jpg",
blurb:
- "A contribution-first curriculum covering Silent Payments, Payjoin, Floresta, Fedimint, and Lightning privacy.",
- lessons: ["Chain analysis defense", "Silent Payments", "Payjoin", "Floresta", "Fedimint privacy"],
+ "Drop-in, review-first sessions opening with Silent Payments, then Payjoin, light clients, network privacy, Lightning and ecash.",
+ lessons: ["Silent Payments", "Chain analysis defense", "Payjoin", "Network privacy", "Ecash privacy"],
},
{
slug: "rawbit",
Chain Analysis; Wallet Fingerprinting
Coin Selection and UTXO Management; Silent Payments
Payjoin; Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto
P2P Privacy and Node Fingerprinting; ASmap and Network Attacks
CoinJoin with JoinMarket; OpenSwap
Lightning Privacy; Contribution Sprint
Silent Payments I: build a sender; Silent Payments II: build a scanner
Silent Payments III: Review Club on Bitcoin Core; Think Like the Adversary (chain analysis & fingerprinting)
Coin Selection & Change; Payjoin
Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto; Network Privacy: Tor, BIP324, private broadcast, ASmap
CoinJoin & OpenSwap; Lightning Privacy
Ecash: Cashu & Fedimint; Contribution Sprint
Every session ends with a contribution. No exceptions.
-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.
+Every session ends with proof of work. Useful, not noisy.
+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.
✕ It's not for you if
→ You're brand new to programming - do rawBit first
- → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in a contribution
+ → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in proof of work
→ You can't commit to a 6-month arc - this is contribution-first by design
@@ -335,12 +335,12 @@
class Component extends DCLogic {
modules = [
- { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Chain analysis and wallet fingerprints', desc: 'Learn the common heuristics used to follow funds, then identify the subtle transaction patterns wallets leak.', repos: ['rust-bitcoin', 'BDK', 'issue pool'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Coin selection and Silent Payments', desc: 'Work through UTXO management, change detection, and BIP352 receiving flows that prevent address reuse.', repos: ['BDK', 'silent payments', 'BIP352'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Payjoin and light clients', desc: 'Break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions, then study compact-filter clients with Floresta and Kyoto.', repos: ['rust-payjoin', 'Floresta', 'Kyoto'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'P2P privacy and network attacks', desc: 'Map node fingerprinting, transaction broadcast leakage, ASmap, and eclipse-style attacks into practical contribution targets.', repos: ['Floresta', 'bitcoin-core', 'ASmap'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin and OpenSwap', desc: 'Explore collaborative transaction systems with JoinMarket and OpenSwap, focusing on docs, tests, and integration issues.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'privacy docs'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Lightning privacy and contribution sprint', desc: 'Close with Lightning privacy, review readiness, and a sprint that turns prepared issues into polished upstream PRs.', repos: ['LDK', 'issue pool', 'PR checklist'] }
+ { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Silent Payments: build it', desc: 'Build a BIP352 sender and scanner from scratch, graded against the official test vectors, then compare full-node, indexer and remote-scanner privacy trade-offs.', repos: ['BIP352', 'Shroud', 'BlindBit'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Silent Payments in Core, then think like the adversary', desc: 'Review the live Bitcoin Core Silent Payments PRs as a Review Club, then learn the chain-analysis heuristics and wallet fingerprints used to follow funds.', repos: ['bitcoin-core', 'libsecp256k1', 'BDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Coin selection and Payjoin', desc: 'Work through UTXO management and change, then break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions.', repos: ['BDK', 'rust-payjoin', 'issue pool'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'Light clients and network privacy', desc: 'Run your own node with Floresta and Kyoto, then use Bitcoin Core 31 private broadcast, BIP324 and ASmap against network surveillance.', repos: ['Floresta', 'Kyoto', 'peer-observer'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin, OpenSwap and Lightning privacy', desc: 'Autopsy a CoinJoin, complete an atomic swap on regtest, then compare what BOLT11 and BOLT12 blinded paths leak.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'LDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Ecash and the contribution sprint', desc: 'Mint and redeem ecash on a test mint, then close with a sprint that turns prepared issues and test reports into polished upstream work.', repos: ['Cashu', 'Fedimint', 'PR checklist'] }
];
repos = [
diff --git a/privacy-track/index.html b/privacy-track/index.html
index 47f633e..1248194 100644
--- a/privacy-track/index.html
+++ b/privacy-track/index.html
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
Bitcoin Privacy Developer Track - Code Orange Dev School
-
+
-
+
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@
-
+
-
+
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
/Programs/Privacy_Track_
Bitcoin Privacy Developer Track. Contribution-first, by design.
- 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.
+ 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.
For Developers
6 months · biweekly
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ Duration
- 5–8
- PRs per graduate
+ 28
+ BIP352 test vectors
10+
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ /GitHub_Curriculum_
Season One: 12 sessions, one contribution path.
- 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.
+ 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.
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ months
- PR
- per session
+ 1
+ live PR review / session
@@ -180,12 +180,12 @@ Full guide →
- Month 1Chain Analysis; Wallet Fingerprinting
- Month 2Coin Selection and UTXO Management; Silent Payments
- Month 3Payjoin; Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto
- Month 4P2P Privacy and Node Fingerprinting; ASmap and Network Attacks
- Month 5CoinJoin with JoinMarket; OpenSwap
- Month 6Lightning Privacy; Contribution Sprint
+ Month 1Silent Payments I: build a sender; Silent Payments II: build a scanner
+ Month 2Silent Payments III: Review Club on Bitcoin Core; Think Like the Adversary (chain analysis & fingerprinting)
+ Month 3Coin Selection & Change; Payjoin
+ Month 4Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto; Network Privacy: Tor, BIP324, private broadcast, ASmap
+ Month 5CoinJoin & OpenSwap; Lightning Privacy
+ Month 6Ecash: Cashu & Fedimint; Contribution Sprint
@@ -203,15 +203,15 @@
- Every session ends with a contribution. No exceptions.
- 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.
+ Every session ends with proof of work. Useful, not noisy.
+ 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.
# session checklist
[x] deep-dive - 90 min
- [x] pair on open issues
- [x] ship contribution ✓
- ── merged or it didn't happen
+ [x] review a live PR together
+ [x] ship proof of work ✓
+ ── tested or it didn't happen
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ ✕ It's not for you if
→ You're brand new to programming - do rawBit first
- → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in a contribution
+ → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in proof of work
→ You can't commit to a 6-month arc - this is contribution-first by design
@@ -335,12 +335,12 @@
class Component extends DCLogic {
modules = [
- { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Chain analysis and wallet fingerprints', desc: 'Learn the common heuristics used to follow funds, then identify the subtle transaction patterns wallets leak.', repos: ['rust-bitcoin', 'BDK', 'issue pool'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Coin selection and Silent Payments', desc: 'Work through UTXO management, change detection, and BIP352 receiving flows that prevent address reuse.', repos: ['BDK', 'silent payments', 'BIP352'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Payjoin and light clients', desc: 'Break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions, then study compact-filter clients with Floresta and Kyoto.', repos: ['rust-payjoin', 'Floresta', 'Kyoto'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'P2P privacy and network attacks', desc: 'Map node fingerprinting, transaction broadcast leakage, ASmap, and eclipse-style attacks into practical contribution targets.', repos: ['Floresta', 'bitcoin-core', 'ASmap'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin and OpenSwap', desc: 'Explore collaborative transaction systems with JoinMarket and OpenSwap, focusing on docs, tests, and integration issues.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'privacy docs'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Lightning privacy and contribution sprint', desc: 'Close with Lightning privacy, review readiness, and a sprint that turns prepared issues into polished upstream PRs.', repos: ['LDK', 'issue pool', 'PR checklist'] }
+ { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Silent Payments: build it', desc: 'Build a BIP352 sender and scanner from scratch, graded against the official test vectors, then compare full-node, indexer and remote-scanner privacy trade-offs.', repos: ['BIP352', 'Shroud', 'BlindBit'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Silent Payments in Core, then think like the adversary', desc: 'Review the live Bitcoin Core Silent Payments PRs as a Review Club, then learn the chain-analysis heuristics and wallet fingerprints used to follow funds.', repos: ['bitcoin-core', 'libsecp256k1', 'BDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Coin selection and Payjoin', desc: 'Work through UTXO management and change, then break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions.', repos: ['BDK', 'rust-payjoin', 'issue pool'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'Light clients and network privacy', desc: 'Run your own node with Floresta and Kyoto, then use Bitcoin Core 31 private broadcast, BIP324 and ASmap against network surveillance.', repos: ['Floresta', 'Kyoto', 'peer-observer'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin, OpenSwap and Lightning privacy', desc: 'Autopsy a CoinJoin, complete an atomic swap on regtest, then compare what BOLT11 and BOLT12 blinded paths leak.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'LDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Ecash and the contribution sprint', desc: 'Mint and redeem ecash on a test mint, then close with a sprint that turns prepared issues and test reports into polished upstream work.', repos: ['Cashu', 'Fedimint', 'PR checklist'] }
];
repos = [
diff --git a/tools/generate-pages.mjs b/tools/generate-pages.mjs
index 18549c1..b21dc9a 100644
--- a/tools/generate-pages.mjs
+++ b/tools/generate-pages.mjs
@@ -47,15 +47,15 @@ const programs = [
title: "Bitcoin Privacy Track",
type: "Developer Cohort",
audience: "For Developers",
- duration: "12 months",
+ duration: "6 months",
schedule: "Bi-weekly sessions",
format: "Online, Discord",
level: "Advanced",
href: "/privacy-track",
image: "/assets/new-workshops/workshop-hands-on-devices.jpg",
blurb:
- "A contribution-first curriculum covering Silent Payments, Payjoin, Floresta, Fedimint, and Lightning privacy.",
- lessons: ["Chain analysis defense", "Silent Payments", "Payjoin", "Floresta", "Fedimint privacy"],
+ "Drop-in, review-first sessions opening with Silent Payments, then Payjoin, light clients, network privacy, Lightning and ecash.",
+ lessons: ["Silent Payments", "Chain analysis defense", "Payjoin", "Network privacy", "Ecash privacy"],
},
{
slug: "rawbit",
Bitcoin Privacy Developer Track. Contribution-first, by design.
-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.
+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.
Duration
/GitHub_Curriculum_
Season One: 12 sessions, one contribution path.
-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.
+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.
months
@@ -180,12 +180,12 @@ Full guide →
- Month 1Chain Analysis; Wallet Fingerprinting
- Month 2Coin Selection and UTXO Management; Silent Payments
- Month 3Payjoin; Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto
- Month 4P2P Privacy and Node Fingerprinting; ASmap and Network Attacks
- Month 5CoinJoin with JoinMarket; OpenSwap
- Month 6Lightning Privacy; Contribution Sprint
+ Month 1Silent Payments I: build a sender; Silent Payments II: build a scanner
+ Month 2Silent Payments III: Review Club on Bitcoin Core; Think Like the Adversary (chain analysis & fingerprinting)
+ Month 3Coin Selection & Change; Payjoin
+ Month 4Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto; Network Privacy: Tor, BIP324, private broadcast, ASmap
+ Month 5CoinJoin & OpenSwap; Lightning Privacy
+ Month 6Ecash: Cashu & Fedimint; Contribution Sprint
@@ -203,15 +203,15 @@
- Every session ends with a contribution. No exceptions.
- 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.
+ Every session ends with proof of work. Useful, not noisy.
+ 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.
# session checklist
[x] deep-dive - 90 min
- [x] pair on open issues
- [x] ship contribution ✓
- ── merged or it didn't happen
+ [x] review a live PR together
+ [x] ship proof of work ✓
+ ── tested or it didn't happen
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ ✕ It's not for you if
→ You're brand new to programming - do rawBit first
- → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in a contribution
+ → You want theory without shipping - every session ends in proof of work
→ You can't commit to a 6-month arc - this is contribution-first by design
@@ -335,12 +335,12 @@
class Component extends DCLogic {
modules = [
- { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Chain analysis and wallet fingerprints', desc: 'Learn the common heuristics used to follow funds, then identify the subtle transaction patterns wallets leak.', repos: ['rust-bitcoin', 'BDK', 'issue pool'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Coin selection and Silent Payments', desc: 'Work through UTXO management, change detection, and BIP352 receiving flows that prevent address reuse.', repos: ['BDK', 'silent payments', 'BIP352'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Payjoin and light clients', desc: 'Break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions, then study compact-filter clients with Floresta and Kyoto.', repos: ['rust-payjoin', 'Floresta', 'Kyoto'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'P2P privacy and network attacks', desc: 'Map node fingerprinting, transaction broadcast leakage, ASmap, and eclipse-style attacks into practical contribution targets.', repos: ['Floresta', 'bitcoin-core', 'ASmap'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin and OpenSwap', desc: 'Explore collaborative transaction systems with JoinMarket and OpenSwap, focusing on docs, tests, and integration issues.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'privacy docs'] },
- { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Lightning privacy and contribution sprint', desc: 'Close with Lightning privacy, review readiness, and a sprint that turns prepared issues into polished upstream PRs.', repos: ['LDK', 'issue pool', 'PR checklist'] }
+ { quarter: 'Month 01', sessions: 'Sessions 01-02', emoji: '01', title: 'Silent Payments: build it', desc: 'Build a BIP352 sender and scanner from scratch, graded against the official test vectors, then compare full-node, indexer and remote-scanner privacy trade-offs.', repos: ['BIP352', 'Shroud', 'BlindBit'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 02', sessions: 'Sessions 03-04', emoji: '02', title: 'Silent Payments in Core, then think like the adversary', desc: 'Review the live Bitcoin Core Silent Payments PRs as a Review Club, then learn the chain-analysis heuristics and wallet fingerprints used to follow funds.', repos: ['bitcoin-core', 'libsecp256k1', 'BDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 03', sessions: 'Sessions 05-06', emoji: '03', title: 'Coin selection and Payjoin', desc: 'Work through UTXO management and change, then break the common-input heuristic with collaborative transactions.', repos: ['BDK', 'rust-payjoin', 'issue pool'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 04', sessions: 'Sessions 07-08', emoji: '04', title: 'Light clients and network privacy', desc: 'Run your own node with Floresta and Kyoto, then use Bitcoin Core 31 private broadcast, BIP324 and ASmap against network surveillance.', repos: ['Floresta', 'Kyoto', 'peer-observer'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 05', sessions: 'Sessions 09-10', emoji: '05', title: 'CoinJoin, OpenSwap and Lightning privacy', desc: 'Autopsy a CoinJoin, complete an atomic swap on regtest, then compare what BOLT11 and BOLT12 blinded paths leak.', repos: ['JoinMarket', 'OpenSwap', 'LDK'] },
+ { quarter: 'Month 06', sessions: 'Sessions 11-12', emoji: '06', title: 'Ecash and the contribution sprint', desc: 'Mint and redeem ecash on a test mint, then close with a sprint that turns prepared issues and test reports into polished upstream work.', repos: ['Cashu', 'Fedimint', 'PR checklist'] }
];
repos = [
diff --git a/tools/generate-pages.mjs b/tools/generate-pages.mjs
index 18549c1..b21dc9a 100644
--- a/tools/generate-pages.mjs
+++ b/tools/generate-pages.mjs
@@ -47,15 +47,15 @@ const programs = [
title: "Bitcoin Privacy Track",
type: "Developer Cohort",
audience: "For Developers",
- duration: "12 months",
+ duration: "6 months",
schedule: "Bi-weekly sessions",
format: "Online, Discord",
level: "Advanced",
href: "/privacy-track",
image: "/assets/new-workshops/workshop-hands-on-devices.jpg",
blurb:
- "A contribution-first curriculum covering Silent Payments, Payjoin, Floresta, Fedimint, and Lightning privacy.",
- lessons: ["Chain analysis defense", "Silent Payments", "Payjoin", "Floresta", "Fedimint privacy"],
+ "Drop-in, review-first sessions opening with Silent Payments, then Payjoin, light clients, network privacy, Lightning and ecash.",
+ lessons: ["Silent Payments", "Chain analysis defense", "Payjoin", "Network privacy", "Ecash privacy"],
},
{
slug: "rawbit",
Chain Analysis; Wallet Fingerprinting
Coin Selection and UTXO Management; Silent Payments
Payjoin; Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto
P2P Privacy and Node Fingerprinting; ASmap and Network Attacks
CoinJoin with JoinMarket; OpenSwap
Lightning Privacy; Contribution Sprint
Silent Payments I: build a sender; Silent Payments II: build a scanner
Silent Payments III: Review Club on Bitcoin Core; Think Like the Adversary (chain analysis & fingerprinting)
Coin Selection & Change; Payjoin
Light Clients with Floresta and Kyoto; Network Privacy: Tor, BIP324, private broadcast, ASmap
CoinJoin & OpenSwap; Lightning Privacy
Ecash: Cashu & Fedimint; Contribution Sprint
Every session ends with a contribution. No exceptions.
-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.
+Every session ends with proof of work. Useful, not noisy.
+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.