{"id":38256,"date":"2021-03-03T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T09:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38256"},"modified":"2025-08-30T03:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:43:05","slug":"bitcoin-developers-to-receive-70000-grants-from-the-human-rights-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-developers-to-receive-70000-grants-from-the-human-rights-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin developers to receive $70,000 grants from the Human Rights Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced the allocation of $70,000 from its developers support fund, aimed at enhancing Bitcoin&#8217;s resilience, privacy and decentralisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New gifts from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HRF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HRF<\/a>&#8216;s Bitcoin dev fund!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jesseposner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jesseposner<\/a> for his work on DLCs + multi-sig<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MuunWallet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MuunWallet<\/a> for their open source Bitcoin\/Lightning wallet<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J9Roem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@J9Roem<\/a> for her outstanding privacy newsletter<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlockchainComns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BlockchainComns<\/a> for Bitcoin \u00abactivist\u00bb internships<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rXA9dr8nDm\">https:\/\/t.co\/rXA9dr8nDm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Gladstein (@gladstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gladstein\/status\/1366808897483198467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grants will be distributed as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$25,000 to Jesse Pozner for his contribution to the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-multisignature-what-is-a-ring-signature\">multisignatures<\/a> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/adiabat.github.io\/dlc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discrete log contracts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$25,000 \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the team behind the development of the Munn Wallet project on the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/lightning-network-faster-cheaper-bitcoin-transactions\">Lightning Network<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$10,000 \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the bitcoin enthusiast Janine Roem, covering as a journalist the progress in improving the privacy of the first cryptocurrency;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$10,000 \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a nonprofit Blockchain Commons, creating opportunities for internships for Bitcoin activists.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Posner previously managed keys at Coinbase, and then turned to open-source technology development. HRF hopes the grant will allow him to research and implement<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/crysp.uwaterloo.ca\/software\/frost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures (FROST)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after the Taproot activation. The aim is to improve privacy and give users greater control of their funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"6MZsH5Fu3U\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/schnorr-signatures-and-taproot-integrated-into-bitcoin-core\">Schnorr signatures and Taproot technology have been included in Bitcoin&#8217;s source code<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cSchnorr signatures and Taproot technology have been included in Bitcoin's source code\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/news\/bitkoin-razrabotchiki-obedinili-podpisi-shnorra-i-tehnologiyu-taproot-v-odin-bip\/embed#?secret=ZHnKAZl0i7#?secret=6MZsH5Fu3U\" data-secret=\"6MZsH5Fu3U\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lightning-enabled Munn Wallet is available for Android and iOS and aims to help users self-custody their Bitcoin. The project team, led by Dario Sneidermanis, is based in Argentina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Janine&#8217;s digest \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/enegnei.github.io\/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy\/posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Month In Bitcoin Privacy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d increases users&#8217; knowledge about how to protect themselves from attackers and improve privacy in Bitcoin transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain Commons, which is developing a decentralized blockchain infrastructure, will direct the grant toward launching a series of internships. Participants will contribute to software development and help HRF activists unlock Bitcoin&#8217;s opportunities. For example, setting up a wallet and adding a Bitcoin address to a personal website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HRF launched the developers support fund in the summer of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December, HRF&#8217;s chief strategist Alex Gladstein said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hrf-explains-how-bitcoin-helps-safeguard-rights-and-freedoms\">millions of people around the world rely on Bitcoin<\/a> to avoid high inflation, frozen accounts, sanctions and financial isolation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced the allocation of $70,000 from its developers support fund for work on enhancing Bitcoin&#8217;s resilience, privacy and decentralisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38257,"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":[18,1358,2072,1256],"class_list":["post-38256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-grants","tag-human-rights-foundation","tag-privacy-and-personal-data"],"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\/38256","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=38256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38258,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38256\/revisions\/38258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}