BitDevs Wiki
A living field guide to bitcoin’s open questions.
BitDevs Wiki tracks the technical debates shaping bitcoin development, explains them in plain language, and links every claim back to its source, so you can reach your own conclusions.
Topics
Quantum Computing & Bitcoin
Whether and when quantum computers could threaten bitcoin's keys, who is exposed, and what a response might look like.
Updated June 202630 sourcesActiveState of the Lightning Network
Where bitcoin's layer-2 payment network stands in 2026: real adoption, active engineering, and unsettled questions.
Updated June 20266 sourcesActiveThe State of Bitcoin Core
What Bitcoin Core's contributors are working on in 2026 — modularization, networking, mempool, sync, interfaces, and the GUI — from the May 2026 Dev Tech meeting.
Updated June 202629 sourcesActiveZcash Orchard Vulnerability
A 2026 counterfeiting bug in Zcash's shielded pool, read as a contrast in how Bitcoin and Zcash trade transparency against privacy.
Updated June 20267 sourcesActive
How this works
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People curate the sources worth tracking.
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Agents summarize them and keep the topic pages current.
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