ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin Magazine, New York's Chaincode Labs has awarded 17-year-old Ishaana Misra the inaugural Bitcoin Scholarship, making her the youngest core code contributor in the 15-year history of Bitcoin technology. The scholarship was selected from 232 applicants worldwide, covering her tuition for one year and potentially renewable each year to support her entire undergraduate education.Misra started programming at the age of 12 and entered the Bitcoin space after reading the Bitcoin whitepaper before high school. She transitioned from running nodes to contributing to the Bitcoin Core codebase by self-learning C++. Misra stated that the Bitcoin community values work results over age, creating an environment that is particularly friendly to young developers.Chaincode Labs CEO Adam Jonas said that this scholarship aims to encourage young people to engage in Bitcoin open-source development and provide them with experience and educational support.