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SpiralBitcoin,Lightning Network,LDK,Lightning Development Kit,Grants,Bitcoin Grants,Open-source bitcoin grants, StratumV2,Bitcoin Developers,Bitcoin Designers,Bitcoin Design Community,Bitcoin CoreSpiral is making bitcoin more than an investment. We fuel bitcoin growth by building tools, providing grants to FOSS contributors, and creating educational content that also entertains.SpiralFOSS Bitcoin GrantsFOSS Bitcoin GrantsFOSS Bitcoin GrantsFOSS Bitcoin GrantsTeamTeamTeamTeamTeamBlogBlogBlogBlogBlogMediaMediaMediaMediaMediaMaking bitcoin more than an investment.Bitcoin is the best money. It should be used like it. We build and fund free, open-source projects aimed at making bitcoin the planet’s preferred currency.Latest UpdatesQuarterly Update Q1 and Q2 2024Perhaps our best Spiral newsletter ever, this extremely late post covers all the bases: weather-induced spirituality, cosmic Jerome Powells, and, most importantly, the phrase “senior technical fungus.Who is Bitcoin?People said that a seven-foot-tall anthropomorphic bitcoin puppet was a pipe dream. They said it couldn’t be done. So we did it, and then we blogged about why we did it.Spiral is Hiring Bitcoin WizardsWe're building an R&D team of bitcoin wizards to improve security, decentralization, privacy, and scaling across all layers of bitcoin.The Book of Bitcoin Mythology: Vol. 2Back by semi-popular demand, we’re covering and uncovering some commonly held myths about the security of bitcoin, from how much of a threat hackers really pose to whether lawmakers can legislate your coins out of existence.FOSS Bitcoin GrantsGet paid in bitcoin to work on bitcoin. Our open-source bitcoin grant program supports developers and designers in over a dozen countries.Apply nowBitcoin Project GrantsBitcoin Dev KitSome have called BDK the Sancho Panza to LDK’s Don Quixote. (No one has ever called it this.) BDK is to on-chain bitcoin what LDK is to Lightning.Lightning Dev KitThere’s a lot we could say about LDK. But why bother when a talking hoodie with a beard already said it better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOT78Bgy1QwBitcoin DesignAre you a wallet dev with a design question? Judging by what many wallets look like, you should. The BDC does for design what open-source has done for bitcoin since day 1.BTCPay ServerNot just our first grant recipient, but our first to receive two more. BTCPay Server is an open-source payments processor that squanders money on ironic business cards.Validating Lightning SignerReally basic LN infrastructure project that improves security by enabling signed transactions within enterprise HSMs, mobile phone secure elements, and hardware wallets.The Eye of SatoshiLN-focused watchtower that monitors blockchain transactions for malicious channel peers attempting to take off with other people’s beautiful coins.CoinSwapAn evolution of the techniques pioneered by CoinJoins, CoinSwap helps you stick it to the man by substantially improving bitcoin’s privacy and fungibility.Summer of BitcoinGlobal summer internship program focused on introducing university students to bitcoin and open-source development. In addition to funding the program, interns receive $2,500 in bitcoin and cursed jewelry.Wallet ScrutinyNot everyone has the time to painstakingly check what’s running on their wallet against public source code. But somehow, everyone at WS does.ZeroSyncOur first grantee working on bitcoin ZK proofs, a mechanic which allows nodes to quickly sync compressed blockchain data instead of countless potentially embarrassing transactions.Bitcoin Developer GrantsVasil DimovFOSS veteran (since 2005) with a focus on P2P and privacy. He's helped add support for Tor V3, I2P, and CJDNS in Bitcoin Core. Pretty nice of him.Gary FuchesPassionate advocate for SegWit 2x and blockchain technology, Gary was our intern only a year before receiving our largest developer grant ever. God only knows what he did with it.Bitcoin ZaviorContributor to LDK and BDK. Photon project maintainer. Developing a React Native version of BDK. One of those grantees who’s tough to sum up without a) going over the word count, and b)Ruben SomsenSpacechains developer and owner of no fewer than three iguanas. This probably isn’t true but the truth has never stopped us before.Justin MoellarThere's a lot to be said about Fedimint dev Justin Moellar, but this unintentionally hilarious line from his proposal says it best: "I have had exposure to almost every kind of database."Sebastian KungDeveloping libbitcoinkernel, which extracts Bitcoin Core’s consensus engine. This only sounds complicated because it is. But not to Sebastian, who is smarter than you and IMatt MorehouseLike many ex-Googlers, Matt Morehouse is doing penance via bitcoin by taking on important Lightning security work. Whether this will save his eternal soul, who are we to say?Alyssa HertigDeveloper doing LNDK work to add BOLT 12 for LND and Eye of Satoshi projects. She’s also a talented and serious writer, which our team hasn’t had until now.Johannes HofmannBitcoin data scientist specializing in on-and-off-chain analysis. Easily the most professional headshot on this page. Just look at that swoosh. Swoosh!JoschisanThere’s no evidence to suggest that anything we write here will be read by anyone, so we can probably say anything we want. Giraffe refrigerator. Rainbow spaghetti. Tuxedo forest.EsraaEsraa is a pseudonymous dev, so there’s nothing we can say about him except that he works on PayJoins with Dan Gould, and you should never say his name three times in front of a mirror.Dan GouldI misspelled Dan’s name both as “Gold” and “Gourd,” which made me wonder how much a gourd made of gold would be worth. According to ChatGPT, roughly $33,500. Congratulations, Dan.plebhashThey’re working on StratumV2 and are passionate about mining and, in their own words, “biased towards the plebs,” as are we all.Sean GiliganFOSS Dev building a Secure Enclave version of VLS, also a Spiral grantee, but one that failed to warn Sean about the Trail of Treats running through the woods.thesimplekidIf you’re reading thesimplekid’s spiral.xyz bio instead of the tweet we did about their Cashu Dev Kit grant, you’re missing out. It’s in our Twitter feed somewhere. Go fish it out. It’s worth it.siv2rPeople keep wanting Spiral grants despite our contract stipulating that every bird they encounter will eavesdrop on them until eternity. They’re birds, so they won’t be able to share anything, but they will know.Nick JohnsonImproving privacy with a BIP 324 Rust library that enables light client encrypted messages, and BIP 000, which muffles the screams you hear whenever you sell bitcoin because you "need to eat"Bitcoin PM GrantsPavlenexHis cred as a bitcoin PM netted him a grant despite the fact that he tried to bribe us by stuffing live carp into our mailboxes. And the Bitcoin Design Guide is better for it.Will ClarkA Bitcoin Core PM who was PMing Bitcoin Core before we decided that our grant program needed a Bitcoin Core PM to PM BItcoin Core. Bitcoin Grantee AlumniTankred HaseUX-focused dev building Photon, a FOSS library that simplifies how new users get coins off exchanges. No more 24-word seeds. Just enter a PIN and go. But where will you go?Justin SunOur most well-known grantee by far, Justin Sun created Moon University, an open-source bitcoin video library. Now he’s helping two other grantees build BDK.Thorbjørn KönigThorbjørn brings 20 years of design experience to radically rethinking how people manage their private keys. Don't worry. We vetted him.Jamaal MontasserResearcher deepening our understanding of how people use (and most likely don’t use) the Bitcoin Core wallet, placing particular emphasis on UX, engineering, and accessibility.Maggie ValentineDesigner simplifying wallet onboarding flows by reducing technical jargon and increasing user education, ultimately making bitcoin accessible to more people. Even copywriters.Patricia EstevãoWhat motivates people to use bitcoin? What do people hope to gain from bitcoin? Is bitcoin a sandwich? Just some of the questions this UX designer and researcher aims to answer.Riccardo CasattaFOSS dev building BDK and Firma, didn’t read the grant before signing it and is now condemned to spend eternity aboard a ghost ship where everyone refers to bitcoin as blockchain.Leon JohnsonThe creator of Advancing Bitcoin, Leon is working on so many things that it is kind of hard to capture them all in six lines. So I won't try.Johns BeharryHybrid product designer bringing order to on-chain, layer 2, CoinJoins, BLTs, PayJoins, and PSBTs by helping develop the payments section of the Bitcoin Design Guide.Gloria ZhaoThe first Brink Fellow, Gloria is working on Package Mempool Accept, which makes second layer protocols like Lightning and unlimited breadsticks safer, more reliable, and private.Lloyd FournierIf applied cryptography experimentation library, alternative LN payment channel construct, and open DLC-based oracle spec mean anything to you... Lloyd?Steve MyersDeveloper developing the Bitcoin Development Kit, an all-in-one resource that makes it 10x easier for developers to develop on-chain bitcoin wallets. Develop.ZmnSCPxjA Lightning and C-Lightning legend, there’s only so much we can say about ZmnSCPxj. But we won’t even say that because no one called ZmnSCPxj is in it for the limelight.Doc SharpPseudonymous designer focused on adding Lightning UX resources to the Bitcoin Design Guide so that by the time Lightning is ubiquitous, even bankers will know how to use it.Stephen DeLormeDesigner helping add Lightning Network best practices to the Bitcoin Design Guide. Recipient of the best grant announcement tweet (and perhaps best tweet) of all time.John CantrellPseudonymous dev named after a character from Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, a giant book that every developer owns but hasn’t read. John is using BDK and LDK to build a boundary pushing wallet.MempoolThe recipient of our first-ever bitcoin-denominated grant, Mempool is the only bitcoin block explorer that doesn’t look like it was designed under duress.Dhruv MehtaStick figure and Core contributor working on BIP324, leveraging the bitcoin-seeder to allow authenticated seeds, automation, and fuzz testing coverage.Raj MaitraRust ecosystem and Bitcoin Development Kit contributor. First dev in India doing funded FOSS bitcoin work. Rabbit hole enthusiast. Actual rabbit.Josh KitmanOur first grantee working on Fedimints, Josh is also an actor whose credits include Anonymous webcasts and V for Vendetta, a movie about doing karate in a wig.Chris BelcherLead developer of a CoinSwap implementation that massively improves bitcoin privacy and fungibility.Sergi DelgadoFormer Lead Developer for the Eye of Satoshi project. Currently enjoying the vertigo-inducing view from Chaincode’s 38th floor New York office.Fi3Another pseudonymous dev. Fi3 is helping develop Stratum V2, a neutral FOSS implementation that can be used by any miner or mining pool in possession of the magic ring.OkjodomPseudonymous robot-faced Fedimint developer helping build Fedimint, a decentralized custody solution for bitcoin that, unfortunately, requires users to have friends.0xB10CProlific developer and grant proposal writer often regarded as a genius by our copywriter, who was too lazy or too incompetent to summarize his project here. Hell of a developer either way.Jon AtackOnce accurately described as “the bitcoin dev who looks the most like they could body you at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2,” Jon’s been going ham on Core for a minute now, man.thunderbiscuitThe Bitcoin Dev Kit expedites how engineers build bitcoin wallets. It’s among the most important projects we support. So, naturally, one of its leading developers is called thunderbiscuit.Daniela BrozzoniCompleting 'non-core' BDK modules. Writing BDK onboarding docs. Using timelocks and multiple keys to build user-friendly decaying multi-sig. Helping build the BDK Rust Library.Evan LinGrantee helping develop the Bitcoin Development Kit, an SDK that six of our grantees have worked on because of Steve Myers’ undeniable charisma. If only Spiral had such a Steve.Matthew RamsdenAn experienced iOS developer working on native Swift apps for BDK and a bunch of other stuff that I won’t include here because I have the technical chops of an old shoe.Christoph OnoDesigner bringing decentralized structure to the 1000+ person Bitcoin Design Community. As the first designer grant recipient, he takes the blame if things don't work out.Daniel NordhA contributor to the Bitcoin Design Community since before it was a community, Daniel is helping create the private key management section of the Bitcoin Design Guide.MogashniUX specialist developing a UX Research Toolkit, contributing to the Wallet Improvement Project, and legally anything else we write here.Michael HaaseProduct designer working on bitcoin inheritance and collaborative custody. So if you kids ever take off with your coins, look no further for who to blame.John MoffettIntroducing the first Spiral grantee to be selected by an entranced fortune teller. He’s done some Bitcoin Core work but besides that—zero credentials. Lucky for John I guess.Amiti UttarwarMentor and coach teaching other bitcoin developers how to be better bitcoin developers, all of whom will hopefully go on to do the same.@spiralbtcSmall team. Big mission. Medium-sized everything else.Steve LeeJust a regular bitcoin PM who doesn’t cast a shadow for some reason.Val WallaceLightning Network stan and author of our popular Twitter account.Arik Sosman8p4K2a3Ag7X0yWng4pGzKZ8eQP04z4AJF0i7kYT11jQ3jtHGym0xHqCZFt1ZzOLQBZT/UStxpeAieZfd1J7Tp7XU21SpUMaH4kPJ3cCu377mUh7+/kFw7aJeff CzyzLong-distance runner. Contemplative developer. Online dating profile with a lot to be desired.Matt CoralloDev proficient in HTML and CSS. Known for his diverse sense of style and passive approach to social media.Haley BerkoeFUD-busting PM. Advocate for women in bitcoin. First Spiral team member to venture into the basement and live to tell about it.Conor OkusLikable guy who thinks he's found his dream job. He doesn't know that his dream job has found him, too. And it's hungry.Elias RohrerHe’s been called the greatest bitcoin developer of the mid-19th century. Confused, we hired him immediately.Gursharan SinghThe 10th and final Spiral employee. There is no 11th. Don’t even bother looking for them, especially on this website.Greg SandersWe have high hopes for Greg. Whether he feels the same way about us remains to be seen, but he’d better if he knows what’s good for him.Yuval KogmanOur second bitcoin wizard hire. One more and we will rule Middle-earth.Get paid to work on bitcoin full-timeSeeking funding for an engineering or design project that could benefit bitcoin? Tell us more. Send a detailed proposal to grants@spiral.xyz. See guidelinesenenhttps://spiral.xyz

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