Status · Upcoming Kickoff · 2026-10-01 15:30 - 16:00

Hackathon control board Berlin, payments edition

money in movement

Build something real. Find collaborators, choose a challenge, ship your project, and put it in front of the bitcoin++ community.

Coming soon How to participate ↓

§ Start here

Three steps from idea to demo.

Everything you need to enter, build, and submit without hunting through the conference site.

01
Join a team
Bring collaborators or add teammates from their bitcoin++ profiles. One person belongs to one project team.
02
Choose your build
Enter the open competition, then opt into any sponsor challenges your project qualifies for.
03
Submit your Project
Add your pitch, team, repository, demo, and supporting links before submissions close.

Important datesUpcoming

Full schedule →

Kickoff Thu Oct 1 · 3:30 PM

Hacking time Thu Oct 1 · 4:00 PM

Project expo Fri Oct 2 · 3:30 PM

Judges meeting Fri Oct 2 · 5:00 PM

Finals Sat Oct 3 · 2:15 PM

Awards Sat Oct 3 · 4:15 PM

Team sizeUp to 4

What countsAnything Bitcoin

Challenge entryOptional + stackable

Coming soon

§ The brief

bitcoin++ is bringing our famous hackathon back to Berlin this October during bitcoin++ payments edition. Compete to make it rain the most over this 24hr hacking period in Berlin

§ Prizes

Prize pool.

Ranked rewards for the top projects. Challenges can stack on top.

★ 1st place · grand prize

+ Challenges · stackable

[ Mempool.space ]

Ain’t nobody got time for that

Does your project involve an onchain bitcoin transaction that needs to confirm promptly? If so, your project is a contender for this prize, which will be awarded for the project which most creatively integrates mempool’s transaction accelerator via the public API as an option for getting a stuck transaction confirmed.

Prizes

Mempool Enterprise Silver Subscription + 500k sats in accelerator credit 21M satoshis

DM x.com/orangesurfbtc or signal orangesurf.01 to receive prize

[ Electrum ]

Most useful Electrum plugin

The Electrum Wallet is extensible through external plugins. Build the most useful plugin for day-to-day use cases to help real users improve their Bitcoin experience. The plugin can be for a desktop, Android or daemon (headless) instance. See https://plugins.electrum.org.

Prizes

1000000 sats per winner 1M satoshis

You receive 1_000_000 sat to a BOLT11 or BOLT12 Lightning invoice.

[ Base58 ]

Most Based Payment Protocol

Best proposal for improving payment protocols in the bitcoin ecosystem. Think big, think idempotent, think peer to peer.

Prizes

500k sats 500k satoshis

§ The judges

8 judges.

Scoring is handled by the assigned hackathon judges.

JUDGE #01

§ Awards

Prize pool.

Normal awards, challenges, and assigned winning projects when winners have been selected.

Coming soon

1st

Bitcoin++ hackathon podium

First Place

Total prize value 2.5M sats

First prize winner of the open competition. Every hackathon submission is eligible for this.

Prizes

Cash Money · 2.5M satoshis

2nd

Bitcoin++ hackathon podium

Second Place

Total prize value 1.75M sats

Second place in the open field competition, as selected by our judges.

Prizes

Cash Money · 1.75M satoshis

3rd

Bitcoin++ hackathon podium