To date, we’ve issued 70+ grants worth $7M+ to 40 grantees and 10 projects across 20+ countries. A dozen now work full-time bitcoin jobs. Rather than fire off statistics, we gave current and former grantees a chance to talk FOSS bitcoin in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VFWx9mkm8U&t=3s

In case you don’t have 4 minutes (come on, you’re on Twitter), the takeaway is this: Every org that benefits from the work of FOSS devs and designers should be supporting them. This way, devs, and designers get paid to do what they love, bitcoin gets better, and everyone wins.

OKCoin, HRF, OpenSats, Bitfinex, Strike, Coinbase, Kraken, Chaincode Labs, mitDCI, Brink, the btrustteam, and others are with us. Don’t have the resources to run a grant program? Donate to orgs like Brink or let employees take sabbaticals to work on FOSS.

We are always accepting grant applications. If you have an ambitious idea for how to improve bitcoin, email us at grants@spiral.xyz. It worked for this testimonial video’s stars: thunderbiscuit, Daniela Brozzoni, John Cantrell, Justin Moon, Steve Myers, Stephen DeLorme.

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Do you guys have any plans to support #nostr devs, projects as well ?

Not at this time.

#[2]​ we still call this nostr

Yikes. We're learning over here.

does a team of people run the Spiral Nostr account?

it would be great to see a some best practices for how to manage a brand account with a team

It seems that it’s a bot and it’s just taking what it put on Twitter and put on Nostr so whatever.

#[4]​ what would be needed to run a real corporate brand on Nostr natively?

I will do some research on how to get a grand. These are amazing opportunities.

Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for also being a cheerleader for grantees and their projects! 📣 🙌 https://nostr.build/i/398ba2450a2bb39e48567938ada43320861b8ae7d5c24288000f960a57aa90a5.webp

This is incredible news 🥳

P.S. whoever is running this account, you’re doing amazing sweetie!

Woah. This is amazing. We'll apply for sure. Grinding hard to leave the fiat world and work on Bitcoin full time at least as a sabbatical... if not longer. Kudos.