{"id":26978,"date":"2020-08-07T10:16:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T07:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=26978"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:57:04","slug":"okcoin-awards-six-figure-grant-to-bitcoin-developer-marco-falke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/okcoin-awards-six-figure-grant-to-bitcoin-developer-marco-falke\/","title":{"rendered":"OKCoin awards six-figure grant to Bitcoin developer Marco Falke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin Core developer Marco Falke has become the fourth beneficiary of a grant from the cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re so excited to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> Core contributor and maintainer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcoFalke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarcoFalke<\/a> is now the fourth recipient of the OKCoin Independent Developer Grant. \ud83c\udf89\ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Th6brJRJz0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Th6brJRJz0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OKCoin (@OKCoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OKCoin\/status\/1291347847124844545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The platform noted Falke&#8217;s contributions to the development and promotion of Bitcoin. He is among the most active developers and is currently focusing on improving the test infrastructure that underpins the network&#8217;s reliability and security.<\/p>\n<p>Falke will also participate in the modularisation of Bitcoin Core&#8217;s code to streamline the work of Bitcoin developers.<\/p>\n<p>OKCoin CEO Hong Fang said the company is &#8216;motivated to invest in Bitcoin, as it has fundamental significance for the development of the industry&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the grant was not disclosed, but it is a six-figure sum.<\/p>\n<p>In total, including the latest grant, OKCoin has provided Bitcoin developers with $500,000.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously the exchange <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">funded<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the BTCPay Server Bitcoin payment-processing service, as well as Bitcoin Core developers Fabian Jahr and Amiti Uttarwar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Core developer Marco Falke became the fourth beneficiary of a grant from the cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1192,1358,231],"class_list":["post-26978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-developers","tag-grants","tag-okcoin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26980,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions\/26980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}