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Last updated on 4 Aug 2020
Funder | @Recipient | Information/URL | Source code | Product | Grant Date | Amount | Announcement | Grant Type | Description of Grant |
Bitcoin | 2020/08 | Development | Prototype an alternative payment channel construct to compare against LN & build a DLC prototype. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/07 | Design | Explore new visual, verbal, musical, and physical techniques to help people memorize their private keys without the need for a pen and paper. | ||||||
Judica(Jeremy Rubin) | Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/07 | $50,000 | Development | Complete critical infrastructure work on the mempool; support additional developers on this effort. | ||||
Bitcoin | 2020/07 | Development | Create a secure and easy to use mobile cross platform (iOS/Android) Bitcoin wallet dev kit and example wallet app. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/07 | Design | Structure the Bitcoin design community & build "Getting Started" guide | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/07 | Development | Continue work on Bitcoin Core, including Schnorr and Taproot. | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/06 | Development | Contribute to Bitcoin Core, specifically to p2p and privacy (Tor V3 support) | ||||||
Bitcoin, CoinSwap | 2020/06 | Development | CoinSwap Implementation for Massively Improving Bitcoin Privacy and Fungibility | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/06 | Development | Talaia is building a FOSS Lightning Network watchtower called The Eye of Satoshi | ||||||
Bitcoin, CoinSwap | 2020/06 | Development | CoinSwap Implementation for Massively Improving Bitcoin Privacy and Fungibility | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/06 | Development | Development of free, secure, private and censorship-resistant payment processor | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2020/06 | Development | LSP is a critical Lightning project that improves security within enterprise (HSMs), mobile phone secure elements and hardware wallets. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/06 | $150,000 | Development | Increase test coverage for P2P layer to ensure a robust codebase & strong automated test coverage to allow devs to make changes with confidence. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/06 | $100,000 | Development | Work on security and privacy of the core software, protocol analysis, advance Bitcoin research and bring attention to open problems. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/05 | $100,000 | Development | Development of free, secure, private and censorship-resistant payment processor | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/05 | $80,000 | Development | Development of free, secure, private and censorship-resistant payment processor | |||||
TBD, accepting applications | Bitcoin, Mining | 2020/05 | Development | Develop a decentralized standard for Bitcoin mining with Stratum V2 | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/05 | $100,000 | Development | Help accelerate the pace of Bitcoin development and highlight significance of open source dev communities like BTCPay. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | Development | UX-focused Bitcoin developments | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | Development | Bitcoin Core contributions | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | $100,000 | Development | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2020/03 | $250,000 | Development | ||||||
Bitcoin, Lightning | 2019/12 | Development | Contribute to Lightning and C-Lightning | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2019/12 | Development | Focus on Bitcoin Core dev process, improve docs for new core contributors, participate in concept review of major future version. | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2019/11 | $30,000 | Development | Development of free, secure, private and censorship-resistant payment processor | |||||
Bitcoin | 2019/09 | $100,000 | Development | Create anything, as long as it’s free and open-source software that improves the security, scalability, privacy, user experience, or fungibility of bitcoin. | |||||
Bitcoin | 2019/07 | $50,000 | Development | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2019/05 | $250,000 | Development | ||||||
Bitcoin | 2018/10 | Development | |||||||
Bitcoin | Development | ||||||||
Bitcoin | Development | ||||||||
Bitcoin | 2018/01 | Development | |||||||
Bitcoin | 2018/01 | Development |