This is the hackathon site for the bitcoin++ 2025 Hackathon in Austin, TX.
The main hackathon competition will be open ended (overall 1st, 2nd, 3rd). Anything involving bitcoin is fair game. Bonus points for mempool or mining related projects.
Here the winners:
HashLeague:
Leaderboard for bitcoin community mining pools projects
Stephen DeLorme, Maru Sabando
Runtime BTC Knots policy changes
Changes to BTC Knots policy (aside from certain configurable options) require a recompilation of the client source code. Addressing this grants us many benefits.
Jason Foura
MemCooler
Its like the mempool, but cooler.We use nostr to allow miners to virtue signal and for users to send transactions directly to those that are aligned with the needs and ideals of the transactor
Damian gudnuf
ToeDip
Test stratum pool connection
Nico Preti
OP_RETURN.space
What would the blockchain be like if the OP_RETURN limit was removed?OP_RETURN.space is a blockchain explorer optimized for displaying large amounts of hilarious data
Conner Ow
Bitaxe authentication
Prevent your friends on your home wifi from pointing your bitaxe to their pool
Calvin Lamb
OpenAutoPay - Autonomous BTC SATs payments by Agentic AIs
Agentic AI (digital workforce) needs a bank account to buy native internet resources by paying off paywalls for autonomous decisions. Lightning+L2s, L402, Nostr & MCP can deliver the 100x AI demand
Sagun Garg, themikemoniker, last_name
Core Explorer Kit
Core explorer is a data science approach to understanding, reviewing and improving the bitcoin core software. This kit seeks to automate the local deployment of core explorer tools, to users.
Juan Galt, itsrealfake, nope ,Carter Cole
garbageman
Some nodes are attacking bitcoin by preferentially peering to relay garbage around the mempool, enabling miners to stuff it into blocks. This new feature for Bitcoin Knots takes out the garbage.
Chris Guida
Rainforest
Rainforest is a self-sovereign storefront where buyers mine, not...
Abrahan Chavez, Hunter Martin, Micah Gwin