The Invisible Infrastructure: Behind the Scenes of Bitcoin and Btrust
summary
Btrust claims a concrete shift: founded in 2021 to fix geographic concentration, it locates, educates and remunerates open source Bitcoin contributors, runs Builders (rebranded 2023), and publishes a 40‑page Builders 2025 report distilled into a blog. The program supports 16+ BIDs across Africa with ~50 meetups as a pipeline, funds starter and long‑term grantees, launched a playbook on GitHub to scale meetups, and pilots a PO partnership with 2140 sending grantees to Chaincode Labs and Bitcoin Core meetups while adding travel and wellbeing support.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to invisible work
- 1:44Bitcoin development simplicity
- 3:12Why BTrust was created
- 5:26Supporting developers globally
- 7:13Building BTrust’s brand
- 8:15Transparency in funding
- 9:03Beyond funding developer support
- 10:30Poor partnership and wellbeing
- 11:58Scaling developer pipelines
- 13:05Behind the scenes work matters
- 13:50Investing in global south
- 14:10Closing and Q&A
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