HRF Awards Bitcoin Grants of $325,000 CryptoBlog

[ad_1]

The Human Rights Foundation’s Bitcoin Development Fund has announced a new round of grants around the world to support industry builders.

According to the announcement sent to Bitcoin Magazine, “areas of interest include Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and South Asia.” Grants include:

$50,000 to Gleb Naumenko for his work on Bitcoin Core, the release of Coinpool, a Bitcoin scaling concept, and for conducting research on SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo as potential Bitcoin scaling solutions Bitcoin. $50,000 to Furzy for his work on Bitcoin Core, focusing primarily on stability, security, and performance features. $25,000 to Bitcoin4India for support for community initiatives and local meetups, education, translation projects, and support for local artisans. $25,000 to Bitcoin Mountain for their building of circular economies, meetings, conferences and trainings in Cameroon. $25,000 to the We Are All Satoshi project, “an Africa-based organization that aims to identify teenage women and men of all faiths interested in technology and help them contribute to Bitcoin,” which will help them develop a programme, organize, support networks and sponsor projects. $25,000 to Tor Relay Operator Associations to support increased network reliability and performance as recommended by the Tor Project. The goal is to help support increased network reliability and performance, especially in light of recent DOS attacks, as a key privacy tool used by people around the world. $25,000 to Bitcoin Magazine Ukraine to support regular Bitcoin meetups in Kyiv, which continue even in the midst of the war – the funding will also help support the release of the first print edition of Bitcoin Magazine Ukraine. $25,000 to Dusty for his work on Lightning Splicing, which allows nodes to scale Lightning channels, allowing bitcoin wallets to have “one balance” where the wallet could pay to both in-chain legacy destinations and perform Payments on Lightning. Lightning Splicing has the potential to dramatically improve the user experience on the Lightning Network. $25,000 to Raseef 22, the leading independent pan-Arab media outlet covering all 22 Arab countries. Published from Beirut since 2013, its 40 journalists work in all four corners of the world to provide relevant coverage of life in the Arabic-speaking world, with a focus on freedoms, democracy and human rights, including social impacts of bitcoin. Belarus, a digital democracy platform that aims to provide the framework to activate direct and representative democracy and prepare a new generation of democracy-loving politicians and citizens, including programming that will focus on building a financial infrastructure based on bitcoin. $15,000 in travel grants to support students, activists and developers at the Africa Bitcoin conference, with travel accommodations and flights, enabling men and women from across Africa to attend and strengthen the adoption on the continent. And $10,000 to support bitcoin++, a Mexico City-based bitcoin developer conference that focuses specifically on privacy, with talks and workshops.

Over the past two years, the HRF has introduced grants amounting to $1.8 million in BTC and USD, supporting more than 60 open source developers, educators, and initiatives around the world.

HRF is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. You can donate at HRF.org/DevFund, while proposals on where this support should go can be submitted to [email protected].

[ad_2]