diff --git a/contrib/devtools/README.md b/contrib/devtools/README.md
--- a/contrib/devtools/README.md
+++ b/contrib/devtools/README.md
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 copyright\_header.py
 ====================
 
-Provides utilities for managing copyright headers of `The Bitcoin Core
-developers` in repository source files. It has three subcommands:
+Provides utilities for managing copyright headers of `The Bitcoin developers`
+in repository source files. It has three subcommands:
 
 ```
 $ ./copyright_header.py report <base_directory> [verbose]
@@ -42,33 +42,33 @@
 
 copyright\_header.py update \<base\_directory\> [verbose]
 ---------------------------------------------------------
-Updates all the copyright headers of `The Bitcoin Core developers` which were
-changed in a year more recent than is listed. For example:
+Updates all the copyright headers of `The Bitcoin developers` which were changed
+in a year more recent than is listed. For example:
 ```
-// Copyright (c) <firstYear>-<lastYear> The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) <firstYear>-<lastYear> The Bitcoin developers
 ```
 will be updated to:
 ```
-// Copyright (c) <firstYear>-<lastModifiedYear> The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) <firstYear>-<lastModifiedYear> The Bitcoin developers
 ```
 where `<lastModifiedYear>` is obtained from the `git log` history.
 
 This subcommand also handles copyright headers that have only a single year. In
 those cases:
 ```
-// Copyright (c) <year> The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) <year> The Bitcoin developers
 ```
 will be updated to:
 ```
-// Copyright (c) <year>-<lastModifiedYear> The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) <year>-<lastModifiedYear> The Bitcoin developers
 ```
 where the update is appropriate.
 
 copyright\_header.py insert \<file\>
 ------------------------------------
-Inserts a copyright header for `The Bitcoin Core developers` at the top of the
-file in either Python or C++ style as determined by the file extension. If the
-file is a Python file and it has  `#!` starting the first line, the header is
+Inserts a copyright header for `The Bitcoin developers` at the top of the file
+in either Python or C++ style as determined by the file extension. If the file
+is a Python file and it has  `#!` starting the first line, the header is
 inserted in the line below it.
 
 The copyright dates will be set to be `<year_introduced>-<current_year>` where
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@
 `<year_introduced>` is equal to `<current_year>`, it will be set as a single
 year rather than two hyphenated years.
 
-If the file already has a copyright for `The Bitcoin Core developers`, the
-script will exit.
+If the file already has a copyright for `The Bitcoin developers`, the script
+will exit.
 
 gen-manpages.sh
 ===============