{"id":33989,"date":"2020-12-25T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T11:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33989"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:31:58","slug":"coinbase-awards-first-grants-to-two-bitcoin-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/coinbase-awards-first-grants-to-two-bitcoin-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase awards first grants to two Bitcoin developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has awarded the first grants to two Bitcoin developers from its Crypto Community Fund.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In October, we announced the launch of the Crypto Community Fund. Today, we\u2019re excited to announce the Fund&#8217;s first two Bitcoin developer grants to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xB10C?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@0xB10C<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/promag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@promag<\/a>. Both will receive grants that fund them through 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nb2sBTMNFH\">https:\/\/t.co\/nb2sBTMNFH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coinbase (@coinbase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coinbase\/status\/1341549152090673153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The grant recipients, whose amounts were not disclosed, were the anonymous developer going by the handle 0xB10C and Juan Barbosa. They will receive funding in Bitcoin or US dollars through 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBoth candidates demonstrated a consistent history of involvement with Bitcoin Core and provided the fund&#8217;s advisory board with a clear and actionable plan for the projects they intend to work on,\u201d Coinbase said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier Barbosa, together with his colleague Jonas Schnelli<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitmain-ends-funding-for-bitcoin-core-developers\"> lost funding<\/a> from the mining equipment maker Bitmain.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in October 2020, Coinbase <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-to-award-grants-to-at-least-two-bitcoin-developers\">announced the creation<\/a> of a dedicated fund to support Bitcoin developers.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has awarded the first grants to two Bitcoin developers from its Crypto Community Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[143,138,1358],"class_list":["post-33989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-core","tag-coinbase","tag-grants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33989","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=33989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33991,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33989\/revisions\/33991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}