Jack Dorsey Gave $10M to Nostr Dev Devoted to Fascist 'Guru' - Business Insider
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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, gave $10 million to a project called Nostr and 14 bitcoins to Nostr's anonymous founder, Giovanni Torres Parra. Parra is a Brazilian man who is a follower of far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho. Nostr is a decentralized social-media protocol with a small user base of cryptocurrency and privacy enthusiasts. The funding comes as Silicon Valley's rightward political drift becomes more apparent. Parra, known pseudonymously as Fiatjaf, is a developer who has built webpages devoted to disseminating the work of Olavo de Carvalho. Parra's political views were shaped by the Austrian school of economics and his frustration with Twitter's increasing censorship. Dorsey's funding went to the nonprofit Open Sats Initiative, which funds bitcoin-related projects including Nostr. The donations to Open Sats are among the largest gifts Dorsey has made as part of his #StartSmall grantmaking initiative.

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