Bitcoin Core

Software Wallets

A self-custodial Lightning node you run yourself, either on your own hardware or in Alby's cloud, which connects to hundreds of Lightning and Nostr apps through Nostr Wallet Connect.

Education & Resources

The Bitcoin Core PR Review Club is a monthly club that reviews Bitcoin Core pull requests in a public IRC channel on the first Wednesday and Thursday of each month. It exists to help newer contributors learn the Bitcoin Core codebase and review process, and past meeting notes are archived on the site.

Education & Resources

The Bitcoin Design Guide is an open-source resource for people building bitcoin products, with reference designs covering savings wallets, backup and recovery, inheritance wallets, shared wallets and time-based recovery. It documents common user flows, bitcoin backup approaches and accessibility considerations.

Education & Resources

Bitcoin Optech publishes a weekly newsletter, podcast, topic pages and case studies that track changes to Bitcoin Core, wallets, services and the wider protocol. It exists to help bitcoin businesses and engineers adopt scaling and efficiency techniques.

Education & Resources

Bitcoin.org's Choose Your Wallet section is a long-standing reference that helps newcomers pick a bitcoin wallet by platform and by criteria such as control of keys, validation, transparency, privacy and fees. The wider site also hosts getting-started material, documentation and a vocabulary for self-custody concepts.

Node Software

Lightning Labs' web interface for running and managing your own lnd Lightning node, with channel and liquidity management tools. You keep custody of node funds.