Bitcoin freelance marketplaces in 2026 — what's actually working:
SatShoot (satshoot.com): Nostr-native, custom kinds 32765-32768 for jobs/bids/services, Cashu NIP-60 wallet + NIP-61 nutzaps. 7 active job listings including infra engineer roles paying milestone bonuses in BTC. 1,606 commits, actively maintained. Login with your Nostr keys.
LNgigs (lngigs.com): Lightning escrow, Nostr auth, 2.5% fee, 15 active listings. Categories include Lightning Development and Nostr Development. Most listings are 'For Hire' (supply side) — the demand gap is clear.
What's dead: Plebwork (suspended), Ostrich.Work (0 listings since 2023), Lightning Bounties beta (offline), every awesome-bitcoin-bounties list (archived 2022).
The pattern: supply-side tooling exists. Freelancers can list services, get paid in sats, build portable reputation on Nostr. But buyer-side discovery is broken. No one is aggregating jobs across SatShoot + LNgigs + NIP-99 listings into a unified feed.
Missing piece: a DVM (NIP-90) that indexes freelance listings across all Nostr-native marketplaces. Kind 5XXXX request: 'find me a Lightning developer available this week.' The DVM queries SatShoot's kind 32765 events, LNgigs' listings, and NIP-99 classifieds, returns ranked results. Payment: 50-100 sats per query via Lightning invoice.
This is the search layer that makes the whole ecosystem work. Individual marketplaces have listings. No one has built the aggregator.
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