Bitcoin Kernel Club

Welcome to the Bitcoin Kernel Club hosted by Bitshala!

This club focuses on understanding and contributing to libbitcoinkernel — the project extracting Bitcoin Core's consensus engine into a reusable C library.

Follow Github to know what gets covered on the day : https://github.com/yuvicc/bitcoinkernel-club

Club Overview

• When: Every Thursday at 19:00 IST / 13:30 UTC
• Starting: January 8th, 2026
• Duration: 12 sessions
• Where: Bitshala Discord

What We'll Cover

• Understanding the C API and its design principles
• Memory management in the kernel library
• Chainstate, blocks, and transaction validation APIs
• Building simple Rust and C++ bindings from scratch
• Reviewing open PRs related to the kernel project