NEW YORK (Might 9, 2023) — The Human Rights Basis (HRF) is happy to announce its newest spherical of items from the Bitcoin Growth Fund. HRF’s 12 grants give attention to enhancing Bitcoin scaling, privateness, decentralization, supporting world training, censorship-resistant communication, and constructing communities worldwide. Areas of focus embody Africa and Asia.
Grants embody:
•$100,000 to Calvin Kim for his work on Utreexo, a Bitcoin scaling resolution for sooner verification and synchronization of Bitcoin full nodes. HRF’s funding permits Kim to analysis and implement a P2P protocol for Utreexo block/transaction messages to organize Utreexo for a fundamental web launch.
•$50,000 to 0xB10C for his or her work on Bitcoin Core Tracepoints, P2P monitoring, fork observer, mining pool observer, and Bitcoin information. Funding helps 0xB10C’s efforts to observe the Bitcoin community for anomalies, enhancing community safety and resiliency.
•$50,000 to Calle for Cashu, a free and open supply protocol that allows Chaumian ecash on high of Bitcoin. The Cashu protocol conceals person balances and transaction historical past, providing near-perfect privateness for customers of custodial Bitcoin wallets.
•$50,000 to Meron Estefanos for the creation of Bitcoin Innovation Hub Uganda. Ugandans face problem receiving remittances because of excessive charges and obstacles in acquiring ID playing cards. The house will host native meetups and function a Bitcoin consciousness and studying middle, equipping native youth with sensible abilities to turn out to be sovereign people.
•$50,000 to Kieran for Snort.Social, an internet consumer of Nostr, a decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source, Lightning-native protocol for a worldwide social community. Snort.Social permits customers to entry Nostr on an internet browser, lowering reliance on app shops and centralized companies.
•$50,000 to Rootzoll for Raspiblitz, a do-it-yourself lightning node that may be run on a Raspberry Pi. Operating one’s personal node permits customers to host in style apps just like the BTCPay server, improve their privateness, and enhance their capacity to confirm their transactions.
•$25,000 to BOB House BKK for his or her Thailand residency program. BOB House BKK is a Bitcoin-only hatchery, incubator, and co-working house in Bangkok. HRF funding will assist BOB’s residency program, accelerating promising FOSS initiatives in Bitcoin, Lightning, and eCash protocols.
•$25,000 to World Liberty Congress for the Freedom Academy, a program that equips activists with the instruments, assets, and assist wanted within the battle towards authoritarianism. This grant supported a current monetary freedom coaching in Zambia.
•$25,000 to Hampus Sjöberg for Blixt Pockets, a non-custodial open-source Bitcoin and lightning pockets. Blixt is feature-rich, with cell and desktop assist, lightning addresses, and LNURL. Funding will assist Hampus’ efforts to enhance the person expertise and efficiency of the Blixt Pockets.
•$10,000 to Nourou for Bitcoin Sénégal, a bunch that hosts meetups, creates instructional content material, and onboards native retailers to Bitcoin. Funding will assist Bitcoin Sénégal’s current work, a brand new web site, in-person meetups, and a “Bitcoin Tour” to extend adoption in Senegal.
•$10,000 to Charlene Fadirepo for the Bitcoin in Africa Present, offering training, insights, and considerate conversations to deepen the understanding of Bitcoin throughout Africa. Funding helps current podcasts, instructional supplies, and neighborhood growth.
•$10,000 to Lorraine Marcel for Bitcoin DADA, a women-centric group with contributors based mostly in Kenya and elsewhere that educates African girls within the Bitcoin house. Funding will assist continued on-line programs, tutorials, and Bitcoin meetups to assist girls in Africa higher perceive Bitcoin.
Since early 2020, HRF has allotted greater than $2.7 million in BTC and USD to greater than 80 builders, educators, and open-source initiatives worldwide. HRF continues to lift assist for the Bitcoin Growth Fund, with the subsequent spherical of items to be introduced in August 2023.
HRF is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit group. Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable by regulation. Items might be made at HRF.org/DevFund, and proposals for assist might be submitted to [email protected].
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