Welcome to the 2019 BTCR Hackathon
This remote hackathon is August 5-9, 2019. Details below.
Daily Meetings
Final Report Out
BTCR Resources
What is BTCR?
Our medium article BTCR Method Updates has a summary of the BTCR (Bitcoin Reference) DID (Decentralized Identifier) method, progress so far, and next steps. It also contains links to the latest BTCR documentation and libraries.
Who is involved with BTCR?
Our ongoing work is primarily volunteer-based. We are a ragtag bunch of well-meaning, quasi-cypherpunk/cryptoanarchic, yet exceedingly goofy folks, committed to supporting privacy and individual rights through development of an independent and fully open DID method. Some critical aspects of our work (mobile wallet, library development) have been furthered by support from from Blockchain Commons, Digital Contract Design, and the Shuttleworth Foundation.
We are eager to get more people involved, and this hackathon will be a great opportunity to exchange ideas with others interested in BTCR.
What to expect
We will kick off the hackathon with our first remote sync up (details below). There we’ll introduce ourselves, interests, and develop a rough game plan for the week. The core devs will be available to answer questions and collaborate on design.
We have quite a few specific outcomes we’d like to achieve, but we encourage you to bring your own suggestions as well. We are looking for all kinds of participants – not just developers. For example, if you are interested in these ideas, and you love writing, translating to non-technical audiences, or distilling complex concepts, we would love for you to join us.
For an example of past BTCR hackathons, see the 2017 BTCR Hackathon repo
Proposed Hackathon Activities
- Writing about BTCR / outreach
- Documentation and samples
- Other developer-focused documentation (e.g. Jupyter notebook)
- Examples of Verifiable Credentials and E2E demonstration of DIDs with Verifiable Credentials
- Update resolvers and libraries to support update and delete operations
- Development of a BTCR wallet/mobile app
- Update playground to support easier creation of BTCR testnet DIDs (e.g. a hosted service backed with faucet funds)
- Connect playground to golang BTCR REST api
Daily Hackathon Sync-ups
- Where: Remote hackathon; we’ll be using zoom: https://zoom.us/j/4354261629
- When:
- August 5-7: 10-11am PDT / 1-2pm ET / 5pm-6pm GMT
- August 8,9: 9-10am PDT / noon-1pm ET / 4pm-5pm GMT
What’s next
We are timing this hackathon to gain momentum in advance of Rebooting Web of Trust 9 in Prague. We won’t finish all the activities above, but the hackathon should help us make progress and transfer knowledge to a broader group of new BTCR contributers.