GitHub: @chaitika
Focus: Silent Payments (BIP352) · Lightning Network · Bitcoin Education
Status: 🟢 Active Contributor
Location: India
Chaitika is a Bitcoin developer and educator working at the frontier of Bitcoin's privacy protocol development. Contributing to three distinct repositories in the Silent Payments (BIP352) stack through Bitshala Incubator, Chaitika is one of a small number of developers globally building open-source infrastructure for reusable, privacy-preserving Bitcoin payment addresses.
Simultaneously, Chaitika leads Lightning Network and LBTCL (Learn Bitcoin from the Command Line) cohorts at Bitshala — India's premier Bitcoin developer education program with 1,200+ Discord members and 350+ cohort participants — directly multiplying the number of Indian developers entering Bitcoin open source.
A personal project, bitcoinforbharat.org, serves as a central public resource for Bitcoin education across India.
| Repository | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bitshala-Incubator/silent-pay-wallet | Contributor | Open-source Silent Payments wallet implementation (BIP352) |
| Bitshala-Incubator/silent-pay-indexer | Contributor | Indexer for serving Bitcoin silent payment data |
| Bitshala-Incubator/silent-pay | Contributor | TypeScript library implementing BIP352 primitives |
Silent Payments (BIP352) allows Bitcoin users to receive payments at a static, reusable address with no on-chain linkability between payments. It requires no interaction with the sender and creates no on-chain footprint beyond the payment itself. This is among the most significant privacy improvements added to Bitcoin in years.
The infrastructure Chaitika is building — wallet, indexer, and library — is what allows end-users and other developers to actually use Silent Payments. Without this application layer, the protocol exists only as a specification.
- Leads LBTCL (Learn Bitcoin from the Command Line) cohorts at Bitshala
- Leads Lightning Network development cohorts at Bitshala
- Maintains bitcoinforbharat.org — public Bitcoin education resource for India
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