{"id":15212,"date":"2021-08-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci028a48e2100025a3"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:00:00","slug":"compass-mining-sponsors-bitcoin-core-jon-atack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/press-releases\/compass-mining-sponsors-bitcoin-core-jon-atack","title":{"rendered":"Compass Mining Sponsors Bitcoin Core Developer Jon Atack For $80,000"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Through the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), Compass Mining<\/a> has announced their newest commit to sponsor Bitcoin Core contributor, Jon Atack, with a one year donation worth $80,000. <\/p>\n

Atack began his contributions to Bitcoin Core over two years ago in March 2019, reviewing code, discovering bugs, and testing fixes all while proving himself as a prolific code author. And after providing lots of value, it wasn’t too long until he joined the Bitcoin Core developers team later that year in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout contributors like Jon, the speed and quality of Bitcoin\u2019s development would noticeably suffer. Our entire team is excited to build a relationship with Jon and support his important work,\u201d said Compass CEO Whit Gibbs. \u201cAs the largest and fastest growing retail-focused bitcoin mining<\/a> companies, we believe it\u2019s essential for Compass to support the development of the protocol our entire industry is built on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The HRF, a non-profit organization who helped facilitate the sponsorship, has sponsored others in the Bitcoin space in the past such as Spector<\/a>, Lot49<\/a>, Calvin Kim<\/a>, Ecosystem Grants<\/a>, and Jesse Posner, Muun Wallet, Janine Roem and Blockchain Commons<\/a>, and six other Bitcoin projects, including developers and Lightning apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHRF is delighted to work with Compass to support Jon and Bitcoin Core,\u201d said Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at HRF. \u201cJon has been a vital contributor to the world\u2019s open source money project and we look forward to helping make his work possible this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compass now joins the only other two bitcoin mining companies (Braiins and Marathon Digital Holdings) to sponsor a Bitcoin Core developer to help develop this open monetary system. Antminer has also supported Bitcoin Core developers in the past, but none at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through the facilitation of the Human Rights Foundation, Compass has committed to a one-year donation of $80,000 to Jon Atack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2687,"featured_media":15213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[227,2641,1541],"class_list":{"0":"post-15212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press-releases","8":"tag-bitcoin-core","9":"tag-compass-mining","10":"tag-core-developer"},"author_data":{"id":2687,"name":"Conor Chepenik","nicename":"conor-chepenik","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_8330-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/e5e28297-cd02-49a6-a73a-e4ab0ce3cb50.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}