{"id":4419,"date":"2023-05-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02bed0ad60002776"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:51:11","slug":"human-rights-foundation-grants-455000-to-bitcoin-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/human-rights-foundation-grants-455000-to-bitcoin-projects","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Foundation Grants $455,000 To Bitcoin Projects Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has granted $455,000 to a dozen projects worldwide through its Bitcoin Development Fund. The grants focus on improving Bitcoin scaling, privacy, decentralization, global education, censorship-resistant communication and community-building efforts, with areas of focus including Africa and Asia. The HRF has allocated more than $2.7 million in BTC and USD since early 2020 to over 80 developers, educators and open-source initiatives worldwide according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.<\/p>\n

One grant recipient is Meron Estefanos<\/a>, who will use $50,000 to create Bitcoin Innovation Hub Uganda. The hub aims to equip local youth with practical skills to become sovereign individuals and will host local meetups to serve as a Bitcoin awareness and learning center. Ugandans face difficulty receiving remittances due to high fees and obstacles in obtaining ID cards, the press release states.<\/p>\n

Calvin Kim<\/a> has received $100,000 to research and implement a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol for Utreexo block\/transaction messages to prepare Utreexo for a mainnet launch. Utreexo is a Bitcoin scaling solution for faster verification and synchronization of Bitcoin full nodes. The grant will support Kim’s work on improving Bitcoin scaling.<\/p>\n

Another recipient is Calle<\/a> for Cashu, which has received $50,000 for the development of a free and open-source protocol that enables Chaumian ecash on top of Bitcoin. The Cashu protocol conceals user balances and transaction history, offering near-perfect privacy for users of custodial Bitcoin wallets. <\/p>\n

0xB10C<\/a> received $50,000 \u201cfor their work on Bitcoin Core Tracepoints, P2P monitoring, fork observer, mining pool observer and Bitcoin data.\u201d In addition, Rootzoll<\/a> received $50,000 for Raspiblitz<\/a>, a do-it-yourself lightning node that can be run on a Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n

$25,000 went to BOB Space BKK<\/a> for their Thailand residency program, while World Liberty Congress<\/a> received $25,000 for the Freedom Academy.<\/p>\n

$25,000 also went to Hampus Sj\u00f6berg<\/a> for Blixt Wallet<\/a>, a non-custodial open-source Bitcoin and Lightning wallet, and $10,000 will go to Nourou<\/a> for Bitcoin S\u00e9n\u00e9gal<\/a>, a group that hosts meetups, creates educational content, and onboards local merchants to Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

Charlene Fadirepo<\/a> got $10,000 for the Bitcoin in Africa Show<\/a>, providing education, insights and thoughtful conversations \u201cto deepen the understanding of Bitcoin across the African continent,\u201d the press release described. And finally, $10,000 will go to Lorraine Marcel<\/a> for Bitcoin DADA<\/a>, a women-centric organization with contributors based in Kenya and beyond that educates African women in the Bitcoin space. <\/p>\n

HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund aims to accelerate the development of privacy-preserving technologies for Bitcoin users and support infrastructure improvements to make Bitcoin more accessible worldwide. The next round of gifts will be announced in August 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HRF’s latest round of grants focus on improving Bitcoin scaling, privacy, decentralization, global education and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2730,"featured_media":4029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[222,221,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-4419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-grants","9":"tag-human-rights-foundation","10":"tag-news"},"author_data":{"id":2730,"name":"BtcCasey","nicename":"casey","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jn_tjlo_400x400.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bitcoin-adoption-map.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","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\/2730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}