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Motivating Principles

Sets editorial standards for a curated list of Bitcoin Cash projects, prioritising active, adopted, open-source software.

May 2, 2026
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What this file does

Sets editorial standards for a curated list of Bitcoin Cash projects, prioritising active, adopted, open-source software.

When to use it

  • Starting a community-maintained list of projects or tools
  • Writing contribution guidelines for an awesome-list repository
  • Defining quality criteria for open-source project curation
  • Establishing rules to avoid duplicate or outdated entries

Motivating Principles

This project was created to serve as a resource for newcomers and developers, and also from frustration with lists of dead, inactive, abandoned or closed-source projects.

In an effort to keep this list maintainable, the idea is to be somewhat picky about what is added, without being a snob. The guiding metric should be end-user adoption and not one's personal opinions about bitcoin.

All the projects and links use Bitcoin Cash, some do so while supporting other currencies, which is awesome.

Contribution Guidelines

Please ensure your pull request adheres to the following guidelines:

Before you start

  • Search previous suggestions before making a new one, as yours may be a duplicate.

Editorial Guidelines

  • Software should be actively maintained and up-to-date with the most recent upgrade, if that's needed.
  • Projects and apps should be functional and ideally have usage by the community.
  • Projects which are large and multifaceted may appear in multiple places, but the same link should never be duplicated.
  • Everything should be awesome: open-source, functional, uses Bitcoin Cash, have documentation and tests, or has most of these.
  • You should not submit a project less than six months old you created or contributed to, rather, it should be promoted to the wider community.

Formatting

  • Use the following format: [project](link) - a short description.
  • If source code and documentation are available, those may be linked as well: [project](link) [[src]](link) [[docs]](doc) - ...
  • Try to describe projects in their own words.
  • Keep descriptions short and simple, but descriptive.
  • Check your spelling and grammar.
  • End all descriptions with a full stop/period.
  • Make sure your text editor is set to remove trailing whitespace.

Thank you for your suggestions!

What's inside

Motivating principles section, contribution guidelines with 3 subsections: before you start, editorial guidelines, formatting rules.

Change this for your project

  • Replace awesome-bitcoin-cash with your own repository name
  • Replace Bitcoin Cash with your project's ecosystem or currency
  • Replace six months with your preferred project age threshold

Where it goes

Keep alongside your test suite. Used to define and score model evaluations.

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