It’s hard to explain why stacking even pennies worth of sats is so satisfying, yet if I lose an equivalent amount of change in the couch, it’s gone forever. I’m never going after it.
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.
We're building an R&D team of bitcoin wizards to improve security, decentralization, privacy, and scaling across all layers of bitcoin. Wizards will identify and drive projects forward in collaboration with the Spiral team and the greater bitcoin development community.
Hypothetical projects that wizards might take on include those pertaining to novel cryptography, developing existing protocol proposals, creating new protocol proposals, etc. Learn more here: https://spiral.xyz/blog/spiral-is-hiring-bitcoin-wizards/
Steve’s gotten really good at podcasts, especially if you compare his appearances to what they were like two years ago. We’re all really proud of him. ☺️
Here he is on the brand new Bitcoin Builders podcast with Nathaniel Whittemore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-42S4x0F_jM&feature=youtu.be
The good news is that we’re finally on Nostr. The bad news is that half our engineering team has been trampled by heavy, high-speed, flightless birds.