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🧵 NEW: HRF Bitcoin Development Fund grants 1 billion satoshis to 20 projects worldwide! The grants are focused on global education, privacy, decentralizing mining, and empowering human rights groups with private financial solutions 🌍🌏🌎🎁 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/human-rights-foundation-grants-10-bitcoin-to-20-projects-worldwide 📝📲 African Bitcoiners is helping to onboard Africans to Bitcoin through a “Bitcoin for Beginners” course, free Lightning payment routing for merchants, and the ability to buy airtime & data with Bitcoin. The grant will support operational costs, educational materials & more. Stratospher, a Bitcoin Core developer working to enhance the P2P network privacy, reviewing critical pull requests in the libsecp library, & mentoring new talent. This grant will support their full-time development efforts 🔒⚙️ Jeff Gardner is working on bringing end-to-end encryption to Nostr Direct and Group Messages without centralized servers. Funding will support ongoing development, allocating bounties to community contributors, and conducting a security audit of the project 🛡️💻 🔐🌐 @Coracle, a Nostr web client, developed by @hodlbod. Recent and planned updates include customizable & shareable feeds, improved DMs for privacy, and encrypted public & private communities. Funding will support the hiring of a full-time developer. Harbor, an open-source #eCash wallet started by the @MutinyWallet team but now an independent project led by Ben Carman and Paul Miller. Harbor incorporates multiple mints, is Tor-only, & automates fund management. This grant will support the development of Harbor’s 1.0 production release 🕵️‍♂️💸 The 256 Foundation's mission to make Bitcoin mining free & open starts with the #Bitaxe initiative. Bitaxe provides an affordable entry point for home mining. This grant will support improving Bitaxe with an aim of making the Bitaxe available with more ASICs manufacturers. ⛏️ 👩🏽‍💻🌍 Kiveclair led by Gloire Wanzavalere in the Democratic Republic of Congo, hosts monthly meetups & training sessions for activists, journalists, & developers around Bitcoin and provides shelter to refugees. Funds will cover the cost of meetups, equipment, and space rental. Silentium Wallet, a self-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet built by @TheSingerLouis, brings privacy preserving Bitcoin donations to activists via Silent Payments. Funds will support the wallet’s infrastructure, including a full cloud node, web server, & hiring a developer. 🛡️📱 BTC Shule, by Belyï Nobel Kubwayo, educates Burundians, in Kirundi & French, to use #Bitcoin for uncensorable payments under Burundi’s authoritarian regime. The grant will support the development of a digital learning platform & educational materials. 📚🏫 🌍💰EttaWallet, an open-source, self-custodial mobile #Lightning wallet built by Collin Rukundo with improved usability & accessibility for Africa. This grant will support further development of the wallet, improve localization efforts, & foster growing a community of users. #Bitcoin The Tor Project for relay operators to increase network reliability and performance. Funding will allow relay operator to deploy nodes that improve the stability and reliability of onion services and increase network robustness against DOS attacks 🌐 Rikto Xonghoti is developing a Bitcoin circular economy in Assam, India. The project offers online Bitcoin education in Assamese & plans to establish a physical Bitcoin center. The grant will support teacher salaries & acquisition of Bitcoin nodes & mining equipment 💡 Yes Bitcoin Haiti led by @HaitianHODL, empowers Haitians in political & financial crisis with Bitcoin education. The team translates educational materials into Haitian Creole & host workshops. Funding will support salaries, equipment, & producing educational materials 🇭🇹📖 Bitcoin Indonesia is building an education platform in Bahasa Indonesia, hosting the largest local Bitcoin conference & connecting local talent with Bitcoin companies for jobs. This grant will support content creation, community outreach, and operational expenses. Bitcoin++, a Bitcoin-only dev conference organized by @niftynei featuring long-form lectures & workshops. This grant will cover travel expenses for developers from authoritarian countries to attend the upcoming Bitcoin++ mints ecash conference in Berlin 🛠️ TABConf, a Bitcoin conference hosted by Michael Tidwell in Atlanta, which creates a forum for protocol and application developers to debate and collaborate on Bitcoin. Funds will cover conference expenses & travel costs for developers in need of financial assistance. 🔐 BalticHoneybadger, a non-profit #Bitcoin conference hosted by Hodl Hodl⁩. With its cypherpunk roots, the conference fosters discussions on technologies that support financial freedom, security & privacy. The grant supports travel expenses for activists & conference costs 🇦🇷 LaBitconf, hosted by Rodolfo Andragnes, is the longest-running #Bitcoin conference in #LatinAmerica helping #Argentines explore Bitcoin as a tool for #financialfreedom. Funds will cover travel expenses for software developers and keynote speakers 🇦🇷 Descentralizar, is a one-day #Bitcoin event held in three cities across the #Argentina, offering debates, workshops, and networking opportunities for attendees. The grant will support travel expenses and conference equipment ⚡ 🛠️ Satsconf, the largest #Bitcoin-only conference in #SouthAmerica, connects the local community with educators, advocates & developers shaping the future of Bitcoin. Funds will support travel expenses for speakers, event logistics & the hackathon. Solidarity Summit, Standing with Political Prisoners, an event organized by Hager Eissa will include a #financialfreedom component & a documentary produced on these issues. Funds will cover venue & event logistics, program development, speaker costs, & film production 🎥📢 🌎 HRF is committed to supporting human rights and financial freedom with Bitcoin. If you are working on a #Bitcoin or adjacent freedom tech software (Nostr, eCash etc), education or adoption project that meets our mandate, submit your application at http://hrf.org/bdfapply 💪