bitcoin++
Status · Upcoming Kickoff · 2026-10-01 16:00 - 16:30
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.

§ Start here

Three steps from idea to demo.

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

  1. 01

    Join a team

    Bring collaborators or add teammates from their bitcoin++ profiles. One person belongs to one project team.

  2. 02

    Choose your build

    Enter the open competition, then opt into any sponsor challenges your project qualifies for.

  3. 03

    Submit your Project

    Add your pitch, team, repository, demo, and supporting links before submissions close.

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.
+ Challenges · stackable

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.

§ The judges

8 judges.

Scoring is handled by the assigned hackathon judges.