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HRF made 8 donations successful BTC to further censorship-resistance, open-source solutions, Bitcoin Core improvement and different initiatives successful the ecosystem.
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced its latest circular of donations totalling $325,000 successful BTC, focused connected furthering cardinal elements of the Bitcoin ecosystem, per a property merchandise sent to Bitcoin Magazine.
With this circular of bitcoin donations, HRF is focusing connected censorship-resistance, open-source custody solutions, Bitcoin Core development, Chaumian e-cash, and acquisition crossed the globe.
The largest publication of $100,000 goes to BTCPay Server, an open-source bitcoin payments processor. The bundle enables users crossed the globe to judge bitcoin payments from anyone, enabling the usage of a censorship-resistant signifier of wealth with comparative privacy. This peculiar donation was made successful concern with Strike's affiliated non-profit, per the release.
Additionally, 2 donations of $50,000 each volition beryllium allocated to Jon Atak and Josh Kitman. Atak is simply a halfway developer continuously reviewing and moving to amended Bitcoin, portion Kitman is moving connected Fedimint, a Chaumian e-cash solution for Bitcoin.
A $25,000 donation to Keith Mukai is meant to further his enactment connected Seed Signer, an offline, air-gapped Bitcoin hardware wallet. In summation to probe and development, Mukai volition physique retired multilingual enactment for right-to-left languages specified arsenic Arabic and Hebrew.
Leigh Cuen is receiving a $25,000 assistance for her enactment successful processing a bitcoin donation usher for non-profits. The usher walks non-governmental organizations (NGOs), authorities institutions and activists connected however to judge donations successful bitcoin and is acceptable to merchandise adjacent period successful concern with the Bitcoin Policy Institute.
Beyond the idiosyncratic developers, Robosats, an open-source peer-to-peer (P2P) Lightning exchange, volition besides person $25,000 to proceed development, connection multilingual enactment and physique retired guides for the product.
Furthermore, Novaya Gazeta, an autarkic Russian quality outlet focused connected investigative reporting connected Russian authorities and society, volition besides person a $25,000 donation. The backing volition alteration the outlet to research the narration betwixt cryptocurrency and quality rights arsenic it relates to the Russian penetration of Ukraine.
Finally, the Vinteum Initiative, a non-profit bitcoin probe and improvement center, volition person the past $25,000 for its acquisition seminars, fellowships, and grants utilized to enactment and physique Bitcoin developers successful Brazil.
The HRF has donated implicit $1.5 cardinal successful BTC and USD implicit the past 2 years to further Bitcoin improvement crossed the satellite and volition denote its adjacent circular of donations successful January 2023.
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