Thread by @gladstein

1/ NEWS: @HRF is delighted to announce a Bitcoin Development Fund grant round of 425 million satoshis to 10 very worthy recipients 🌍 ⚡

Support is targeted at core development, privacy-focused wallets, Lightning, and global translation and education 🧵

bitcoinmagazine.com/business/hrf-g…

2/ 100M sats to @jarolrod for his work on Bitcoin Core.

A frequent contributor, having completed hundreds of pull requests, funding will allow Jarol to continue core development, as well as to complete a collaborative project to build a new GUI client for Bitcoin Core 🙌

3/ 50M sats to @Farida_N to create the "Togo Bitcoin Academy" 🇹🇬

A Togolese democracy advocate, Farida will give her fellow citizens know-how to help break free from the dictator-backed CFA currency.

Special thanks to the @Gemini Opportunity Fund for making this gift possible.

4/ 50M sats to @craigraw and the @SparrowWallet team for their open-source desktop product.

Already packing CoinJoin, Tor, and PayJoin support, funding will allow Craig and team to continue to develop Lightning and privacy features 🔐

5/ 50M sats to @RoyaMahboob to support "The Women's Annex"

First established in 2013, the rebooted project will help arm Afghan woman journalists, writers, designers, and filmmakers with BTC knowledge 🇦🇫

Special thanks again to @Gemini @tyler @cameron for making this possible!

6/ 50M sats to @AnitaPosch to create the "Bitcoin for Fairness Foundation"

Anita's goal is to help bring BTC to millions through educational work particularly in emerging market countries.

HRF's gift will help Posch support on-the-ground educators in many world regions 🌍

7/ 25M sats to @Boltzhq to continue to bootstrap the Lightning economy

Funding will support a Taproot upgrade to use less chain space + make swaps indistinguishable from normal spends; implementation w/ c-lightning via an end-user CLI tool; and enabling Liquid>Lightning swaps ⚡

8/ 25M sats to @summerofbitcoin to help develop the next generation of Bitcoin talent.

HRF is proud to support this global summer internship program that focuses on introducing university students to Bitcoin development.

To apply, see here:

summerofbitcoin.org/apply

9/ 25M sats to @Exonumia21, a Bitcoin non-profit translating Bitcoin educational content into native African languages.

Funding will support Exonumia as they translate additional content into more languages across the continent 🌍

medium.com/exonumia/exonu…

10/ 25M sats to @BlockchainComns to expand Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line to include more Lightning info and expand Gordian Server to auto-deploy Lightning.

This gift will also support translation of LBFTCL to more languages and integration w/ services like Cypherpunkpay

11/ 25M sats to @meronina for Bitcoin education in Eritrea and the Horn of Africa.

A prominent human rights activist, Meron recently translated @LittleBitcoinBk into Tigrinya, and will create an audiobook and a workshop to educate Eritreans around the world on how to use BTC 🇪🇷

12/ Special thanks to @cmsholdings, @lopp, and the @Gemini Opportunity Fund for making this round possible.

It's an honor and privilege for us to support so much creative and important Bitcoin work worldwide.

13/ To date, HRF has allocated more than $1,100,000 in BTC and USD to more than 30 developers and educators across the globe.

The next round of gifts will be announced in Q2.

Stay tuned and submit ideas at devfund at hrf dot org!