The Bitcoin Operations Technology Group (Optech) works to bring the best open source technologies and techniques to Bitcoin-using businesses in order to lower costs and improve customer experiences.

An initial focus for the group is working with its member organizations to reduce transaction sizes and minimize the effect of subsequent transaction fee increases. We provide workshops, documentation, weekly newsletters, original research, case studies and announcements, a podcast, and help facilitate improved relations between businesses and the open source community.

If you’re an engineer or manager at a Bitcoin company or an open source contributor and you’d like to be a part of this, please contact us at info@bitcoinops.org.

Funding

Optech does not exist to make a profit, and all materials and documentation produced are released under the MIT license.

Seed funding was provided by Wences Casares and John Pfeffer to cover outside contractors and incidental expenses. Resources are provided by Chaincode Labs to support Optech.

Our generous member companies pay an annual contribution to cover expenses.

Optech Contributors

All material produced by Bitcoin Optech is open source and released under the MIT license. Anyone is welcome to contribute by opening issues and pull requests, reviewing newsletters and other material, and contributing translations. Our most regular contributors are:

  • Adam Jonas

    Adam Jonas

    Special Projects, Chaincode Labs

     GitHub
  • Carl Dong

    Carl Dong

    Developer, Chaincode Labs

     GitHub
  • David A. Harding

    David A. Harding

     GitHub
  • Gloria Zhao

    Gloria Zhao

    Grantee, Brink

     GitHub
  • Mark Erhardt

    Mark Erhardt

    Developer, Chaincode Labs

     GitHub
  • Mike Schmidt

    Mike Schmidt

    Executive Director, Brink

     GitHub
  • Shigeyuki Azuchi

    Shigeyuki Azuchi

    CTO, Chaintope

     GitHub

Founding Sponsors

Our founding sponsors have generously provided funds and resources to cover our start-up and ongoing costs.

  • Wences Casares

    Wences Casares

  • John Pfeffer

    John Pfeffer

    Twitter
  • Alex Morcos

    Alex Morcos

    Twitter

Former Optech Contributors

We thank all of our previous contributors for their efforts.