Human Rights Foundation Makes Third Quarter Bitcoin Donations – Bitcoin Magazine
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced its latest round of donations totaling $325,000 in BTC, focused on advancing key elements of the Bitcoin ecosystem, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.
With this round of bitcoin donations, HRF is focusing on censorship resistance, open source escrow solutions, Bitcoin Core development, Chaumian e-cash and education worldwide.
The largest contribution of $100,000 goes to BTCPay Server, an open source bitcoin payment processor. The software enables users worldwide to accept bitcoin payments from anyone, enabling the use of a censorship-resistant form of money with relative privacy. This particular donation was made in partnership with Strike’s affiliated nonprofit, according to the release.
In addition, two donations of $50,000 each will be awarded to Jon Atak and Josh Kitman. Atak is a core developer who is continuously evaluating and working to improve Bitcoin, while Kitman works with Fedimint, a Chaumian e-cash solution for Bitcoin.
A $25,000 donation to Keith Mukai is intended to advance his work on Seed Signer, an offline, air-gapped Bitcoin hardware wallet. In addition to research and development, Mukai will build out multilingual support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Leigh Cuen receives a $25,000 grant for her work developing a bitcoin donation guide for non-profit organizations. The guide walks non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government institutions and activists on how to accept donations in bitcoin and is set to be published next month in collaboration with the Bitcoin Policy Institute.
In addition to the individual developers, Robosats, an open source peer-to-peer (P2P) Lightning exchange, will also receive $25,000 to continue development, provide multilingual support, and build out guides for the product.
Additionally, Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian news agency focused on investigative reporting on Russian politics and society, will also receive a $25,000 donation. The funding will enable the outlet to explore the relationship between cryptocurrency and human rights as it relates to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Finally, the Vinteum Initiative, a non-profit bitcoin research and development center, will receive the final $25,000 for its educational seminars, scholarships and grants used to support and build Bitcoin developers in Brazil.
HRF has donated over $1.5 million in BTC and USD over the past two years to promote Bitcoin development worldwide and will announce its next round of donations in January 2023.
