Ecosystem Support

Beyond their responsibilities within our Programs, team members support the broader ecosystem by serving in leadership roles, operating infrastructure, maintaining critical tooling, and educating the wider community. See our Transparency Reports for a full accounting of these efforts.

Localhost Research also provides financial support to several ecosystem projects.

Ecosystem Roles

• achow101 is a Bitcoin Core maintainer.
• murchandamus is a Bitcoin Improvement Proposals editor.

Operated Infrastructure

• achow101 operates a Bitcoin DNS seed.
• davidgumberg operates benchcab, with Justin overseeing the hardware.
• Justin operates the public FIBRE network.

Maintained Tooling

• achow101 maintains:
  • dnsseedrs
  • signapple
  • Hardware Wallet Interface
• davidgumberg maintains the benchcab implementation.
• w0xlt maintains the FIBRE protocol implementation.

Education

• achow101:
  • Hosts weekly code review streams on Twitch.
  • Moderates the Technical Support and Development & Technical Discussion sections of BitcoinTalk.
• achow101 and murchandamus are moderators of Bitcoin Stack Exchange.
• murchandamus co-hosts the weekly Bitcoin Optech Recap podcast and contributes to the newsletter.
• Justin co-hosts the SF BitDevs chapter.
• Justin and Patricia help organize the twice-yearly CoreDev events.

Financial Support

Localhost Research sponsors the following projects:

• Bitnodes
• Forkmonitor
• The peer-observer demo instance