Keep an Eye on This Cohort of Open Source Developer Interns

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With the internship drawing to a close, the interns have just about completed their projects - but that doesn't mean they're done contributing to Bitcoin's open source landscape.

As the internship draws to a close, the interns' contributions to free and open-source software are nearing completion and will soon be open to the public to use.

Allen founded the Blockchain Commons in 2018 in a bid to keep Bitcoin's development open and distributed.

After a brief tenure at Blockstream, Allen founded his not-for-profit benefit organization to do his part to keep Bitcoin's development distributed.

Now, after a summer of tinkering, his newest interns have enriched the codebase and Github libraries of some of the Blockchain Commons' principal projects - including the addition of a project of their own design.

For their new group project, the interns began building Spotbit, a software for curating Tor-supported bitcoin price feeds.

The Lethe Kit can generate seeds and addresses to receive transactions, but it cannot send bitcoin through partially-signed Bitcoin transactions.

The Gordian Server operates similarly to Bitcoin node dashboards like My Node by offering its users a graphical user interface for interacting with Bitcoin Core.A GUI is the user-friendly, layman's version of the command-line interface - the raw coding terminal that developers use to speak to their devices.

For another project, Elango and fellow intern Javier Vargas are stepping into the role of instructor by fleshing out the Blockchain Commons' documentation of RPC codes for managing a Bitcoin node from the command-line interface.

"It's definitely got me interested in Bitcoin open-source development. At first I was kind of intimidated by these large open-source projects. After the internship, I've become more comfortable with doing large contributions to these projects. Once I learn the basics of C++ I may start contributing to Bitcoin Core. And if not Bitcoin Core specifically, then some other open-source project," he told CoinDesk.

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