The Bitcoin Developer Ecosystem | Bitcoin 2026

"There's still low-hanging fruit in Bitcoin." niftynei, founder of bitcoin++, is making the case for new developers to jump in and laying out exactly where the work is happening. In this Bitcoin 2026 Open Source stage talk, she covers the state of Bitcoin Core, alternative implementations, the post-quantum signature research, BitVM and witness encryption, sidechains and rollups, and the surprising adoption of Lightning by mainstream payment companies via the IETF.

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Chapters:
01:16 — Highlight #1: The Bitcoin Protocol Didn't Change — But Everything Around It Did
02:27 — Cluster Mempool, Silent Payments & FIBRE Relay Revival
02:55 — Consensus Conversations: BIPs, Covenants & the Great Script Restoration
03:45 — Why Adjacent Protocols (Nostr, Cashu, Lightning) Get More Dev Attention
04:01 — Highlight #2: Should Bitcoin Core Be the Only Implementation?
04:38 — Bitcoin Kernel, Multiprocess Communication & New Funding (Production Ready)
05:25 — Highlight #3: Cryptography Is Cool Again
06:23 — Post-Quantum: SPHINCS+, Lattice Crypto & Blockstream Research
07:05 — Highlight #4: Permissionless Paths Around Consensus
07:54 — BitVM, Bino Hash, Drivechains & New Sidechain Forks
08:18 — Second Layers: Citrea, Arc, Shielded CSV & Lightning Payments
09:15 — Highlight #5: Bitcoin Adoption at the Edges (Stripe + Lightspark + IETF)
10:20 — Low-Hanging Fruit & How New Developers Can Contribute
11:20 — Free Year of Insider Edition & Closing Thanks

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