HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Awards $325,000 In New Grants

The Human Rights Foundation’s Bitcoin Development Fund has announced a caller acceptable of grants to spell retired crossed the globe to enactment builders successful the industry. 

• $50,000 to Gleb Naumenko for his enactment connected Bitcoin Core, the merchandise of Coinpool, a conception for scaling Bitcoin and for conducting probe on SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo arsenic imaginable Bitcoin scaling solutions.
• $50,000 to Furzy for his enactment connected Bitcoin Core, chiefly addressing stability, information and show features.
• $25,000 to Bitcoin4India for enactment for assemblage initiatives and section meetups, education, translation projects and enactment of section artisans.
• $25,000 to Bitcoin Mountain for their gathering of circular economies, meetups, conferences and grooming successful Cameroon.
• $25,000 to the We Are All Satoshi project, “an Africa-based enactment that aims to place teenage women and men from each spiritual backgrounds funny successful tech and assistance steer them to contributing to Bitcoin,” which volition assistance them successful improvement of curriculum, organizing enactment networks and sponsoring projects.
• $25,000 to Tor relay relation associations to enactment accrued web reliability and performance, arsenic recommended by the Tor Project. The extremity is to assistance enactment accrued web reliability and performance, particularly successful airy of caller DOS attacks, arsenic a cardinal privateness instrumentality utilized by radical astir the world.
• $25,000 to Bitcoin Magazine Ukraine to enactment regular Bitcoin meetups successful Kiev, which proceed adjacent successful the midst of the warfare — backing volition besides assistance enactment the merchandise of the archetypal people variation of Bitcoin Magazine Ukraine.
• $25,000 to Dusty for his enactment connected Lightning Splicing, which allows nodes to resize Lightning channels, allowing Bitcoin wallets to person “one balance” wherever the wallet could wage to some bequest on-chain destinations arsenic good arsenic marque payments connected Lightning. Lightning Splicing has the imaginable to dramatically amended the idiosyncratic acquisition connected the Lightning Network.
• $25,000 to Raseef 22, the starring autarkic pan-Arab media covering the 22 Arab countries. Published from Beirut since 2013, its 40 journalists enactment from the 4 corners of the satellite to bring applicable sum of beingness successful the Arabic speaking world, with a absorption connected freedoms, ideology and quality rights, including the societal impacts of bitcoin.
• $25,000 to New Belarus, a integer ideology level that aims to supply the model for activating nonstop and typical ideology and preparing a caller procreation of politicians and democracy-savvy citizens, including programming that volition absorption connected gathering a bitcoin-based fiscal infrastructure.
• $15,000 successful question grants to enactment students, activists, and developers astatine the Africa Bitcoin Conference, with question accommodations and flights, allowing men and women from each implicit Africa to be and physique connected adoption successful the continent.
• And $10,000 to support bitcoin ++, a Mexico City based Bitcoin developer league that has a circumstantial privateness focus, with lectures and workshops.