Support Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a protocol that was born from a small community and has grown fast since. There are a lot of things you can do to help Bitcoin to spread and improve over time.

Using Bitcoin

Using Bitcoin is the first thing you can do to support Bitcoin. There are probably many cases where it can make your life easier. You can accept payments and make purchases with Bitcoin.

Be the network

If you have a good Internet connection, you can strengthen the Bitcoin network by keeping full node software running on your computer or server with port 8333 open. Full nodes are securing and relaying all transactions.

Mining

You can start mining bitcoins to help processing transactions. In order to protect the network, you should join smaller mining pools and prefer decentralized pools like P2Pool or pools with getblocktemplate (GBT) support.

Translate

You can help to increase Bitcoin availability by translating or improving translations inside important parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Just pick a project you would like to help.

Bitcoin Wiki - Bitcoin Wallet (Android) - Electrum

Development

Bitcoin is free software. So if you are a developer, you can use your super-powers to do good and improve Bitcoin. Or you can build amazing new services or software that can use Bitcoin.

Donation

The easiest way to help is to donate a few bitcoins to the Bitcoin Foundation. Or you can help directly fund any project related to Bitcoin that you believe will be helpful in the future.

Organizations

Many non-profit organizations are dedicated to protecting and promoting Bitcoin. You can help these groups by joining them and taking part in their projects, discussions and events.

Spread

Speak about Bitcoin to interested people. Write about it on your blog. Tell your favorite shops you would like to pay with Bitcoin. Help keeping merchant directories up to date. Or be creative and make yourself a nice Bitcoin T-shirt.

Documentation

This site and the Bitcoin wiki provide useful documentation and we are constantly improving the information they contain. You can help to improve these resources and keep them up to date.

Meet the communities

You can join Bitcoin communities and talk with other Bitcoin enthusiasts. You can learn more about Bitcoin every day, give help to new users and get involved in interesting projects.