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The topic of non-developer contributions to Bitcoin and Bitcoin Core came up in a thread the other day. So I wanted to elevate this list, in case people are interested.
Ways to contribute other than code:
Education / Outreach Optech Conferences Saving Satoshi Fundraising Bitdevs
User feedback Reproducing issues Priorities?
Security Dependency auditing CVE disclosure Mailing list Pen testing
Dev Tooling CI Signet Fuzzing Drahtbot Corecheck,dev Bitcoin dev wiki
Mentoring Developer hubs Review clubs
Release Process Testing guide Building binaries Signing binaries translations Packaging for distro
Monitoring b10c stuff etc
Standardization BIPs Bolts etc
Events Coredev Online communication channels Mailing list Delving IRC Twitter / etc Stack exchange http://bitcoincore.org Backups of stuff
Dev Infrastructure Fuzzing Devops stuff Dns seeds
User feedback Outward Talk to miners? Exchanges? Surveys
Research BRW
Janitor work Reproducing
Other items listed: Coredev conference BIPs (review, reading) Stack exchange CI Fuzzer machines Devops Monitoring http://bitcoincore.org maintaining/hosting Signet / inquisition Utilities for interacting with Bitcoin (Core) Educational stuff like saving satoshi Delving Mailing list Backup of delving/mailing list/github comments IRC and logs Drahtbot / meetingbot Bitcoinacks (?) Fundraising Developer hubs Review clubs Technical talks / podcasts / outreach Bitdevs Deterministic builds (running) Dns seed Dependency auditing/pruning Architecture CI doesn’t account for Reproducing issues Moderation of github Research Week Twitter threads Translations Security Security mailing list CVE management / disclosure etc Pen testing http://Corecheck.dev Core dev wiki Bitcoin wiki Summaries of communal knowledge Optech Release packaging for distros Janitoring old issues/PRs BOSS program Summer of Bitcoin
I don't understand more than half of these, but the least effort one I can guide anyone to do, is run a full node.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 19h
They also need to use their full node for something (like privately checking their balance and in progress transactions), otherwise there isn't really much point.
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Even just acting as a seeder to other nodes can be helpful, IMO
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