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Bitcoin Magazine presents the Top 21 Bitcoin Projects in 2020!

This year may go down as the most bullish in Bitcoin history thanks to an assortment of projects led by teams from around the world dedicated to making bitcoin the standard.

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Here is a thread for the entire top 21 most influential Bitcoin projects list.

Including honorable mentions at the end.

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This year, @bisq_network provided the most censorship-resistant on-ramp and off-ramp for Bitcoin. Bisq is designed to be the exchange of last resort and it has made some massive strides in 2020, including adding SegWit support.

.@bluewalletio shipped like crazy in 2020 and served as the most full-featured iOS bitcoin wallet on the market. It was also one of the most cutting-edge mobile wallets in Bitcoin.

@BtcpayServer’s status as an open-source payment processor for sovereign businesses and individuals was more necessary than ever in 2020 when deplatforming and financial censorship became commonplace.

.@Coinkite was the first major hardware manufacturer to prove that a Bitcoin-only business model could be successful while increasing the security guarantees expected from a hardware wallet.

.@fold_app has revolutionized the use of sats as a universal rewards point, all the while preserving privacy and using a respectful business model that drives results. They've consistently shipped great updates & features, culminating in a sats-back debit card launched in 2020.

In 2020, @hodlhodl maintained a continuous focus on providing KYC-free and non-custodial options amid a landscape with increasing regulations and KYC requirements. This type of consistency is much needed in the Bitcoin space.

The Human Rights Foundation (@HRF) launched the first 501(c)(3) Bitcoin development fund this year so that Bitcoiners and others can contribute to development in a tax-efficient manner and help build the ecosystem.

.@lightning spent 2020 building out open tools to help support independent Lightning node operators manage their nodes more effectively, like with Lightning Pool.

This year @MicroStrategy announced its adoption of a Bitcoin standard for its corporate treasury, converting more than $450 million to BTC at an average price of $11,111. It has since bought more BTC while announcing future intentions on offering Bitcoin blockchain data products.

This year, @mynodebtc provided a user-friendly and accessible platform for Bitcoiners to deploy their own, 24/7 dedicated Bitcoin node and use it easily.

.@RiverFinancial is the only institutional-grade bitcoin exchange, which has built out an extremely impressive, cutting-edge bitcoin financial services offering with native hardware wallet support, Lightning and auto dollar-cost averaging (DCA) features.

.@SamouraiWallet provides a full-featured, privacy-focused software stack for Bitcoiners, including a full-node implementation, mobile wallet, best-in-class ZeroLink-coordinated CoinJoin implementation, coin control with labeling, stealth addresses, and P2P CoinJoin and PayJoin.

.@slush_pool is the most innovative public mining pool in the space and in 2020, began championing a Stratum protocol improvement which should significantly improve the incentives between miners and pool operators.

.@SpecterWallet emerged as the easiest way to use your own bitcoin wallets directly with Bitcoin Core in 2020. This enabled a much more private & sovereign method than using hosted apples, while also providing much easier set up and use than previous Electrum-based alternatives.

.@sphinx_chat the first consumer-focused Lightning chat app, with an added focus on providing podcasters with the ability to broadcast their shows to audiences while receiving sats per minute, offers an end-to-end encrypted and open standard, routed natively through Bitcoin’s LN.

Under CEO @jack, @Square became the first legitimate fintech company to begin diving into Bitcoin. In 2020, BTC was a major profit driver for Square (@CashApp) and it has emerged as a leader in Bitcoin development. With @sqcrypto giving out 19 grants for Bitcoin development.

.@ln_strike is an incredibly easy-to-use, P2P payment app that is built on top of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Users can easily send dollars and withdraw bitcoin with Strike and it helped showcase the advances that Bitcoin has made as a payments technology this year.

.@Suredbits has emerged as the leaders in Discreet Log Contract (DLC) technology for Bitcoin in 2020. Throughout the year, the Suredbits team has pushed the envelope on Bitcoin-based oracle and Lightning initiatives.

In 2020, @SwanBitcoin established itself as a new and powerful player in the Bitcoin onramp and education space. Swan is a true Bitcoiners onramp that remained true to Bitcoin best practices throughout the year. Swan has a phenomenal team of talented builders and educators.

.@unchainedcap is one of the first Bitcoin-native financial services company. In 2020 it built on its fantastic 2019 momentum by shipping business infrastructure & features, as well as announcing support for Coldcard. Its blog is one of the best educational resources for Bitcoin.

In 2020, @wasabiwallet has done an incredible amount of work to make better Bitcoin privacy more accessible. This includes easy CoinJoin, coin selecting & labeling, native Bitcoin Core integrative, native Tor integration, and native hardware wallet support.

Honorable Mentions:

@BitGo
@CasaHODL
@donnerlab1
@FullyNoded
@glassnode
@Grayscale
@nodl_it
@RaspiBlitz
@getumbrel

Bitcoin Magazine could not be more excited about Bitcoin’s forward march and we are thrilled to be part of such a vibrant community!