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OpenSats has received an additional donation of $21M from #startsmall - @jack 's philanthropic initiative. $15,000,000 going to our General Fund. $5,000,000 to our Nostr Fund. $1M to our operations budget. Let us proceed together apace. Onward.

Additional Funding from #startsmall

OpenSats receives $21 million from #startsmall for bitcoin, nostr, and related FOSS development.

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BITWISE TO PROVIDE 10% OF PROFIT TO BITCOIN DEVS FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS.

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"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them," - Hal Finney We are proud to announce grants for over a dozen open source projects in the bitcoin ecosystem. Freedom Tech is Hope 🫡

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Nostr is a censorship resistant open source communication protocol that is incredibly complementary to bitcoin. We are funding sixteen projects in our first round of nostr grants. Much more to come. We are just getting started. 🫡

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We have received $10M in additional funding that will be used to support free and open source software. 🫡

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1 year

8 New Grants 33 Existing Grants The freedom tech will continue until morale improves 🫡

Grants for BDK, LNbits, Nostr, and More!

OpenSats is providing grants to 8 additional open-source projects in the bitcoin and nostr ecosystem.

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Funding bitcoin

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Running bitcoin

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👀 501(c)(3) approved Donations to OpenSats, which are 100% passed through to #Bitcoin Core and FOSS contributors will now officially be tax deductible for all donors. Lots more coming soon™ , but figured we’d share the good news.

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2 months

LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR CALLE @callebtc is recognized for his ongoing work with Cashu, a free and open-source bitcoin powered Chaumian Ecash protocol that greatly improves user transaction privacy and efficiency.

Long-Term Support For Calle

OpenSats Welcomes Calle as an LTS Grantee.

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2 years

Just today, we've received over: 530 Individual Donations 1.13 BTC $14,000 USD to support the OpenSats legal defense fund. 462 of the 530 donations have been in Bitcoin.

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2 years

We are proud to launch the Open Sats legal defense fund which aims to defend open-source Bitcoin contributors from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin & FOSS ecosystems by directing donations to fund legal fees related to these contributions

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OPENSATS RECEIVES $1,000,000 DONATION FROM REYNOLDS FOUNDATION The Reynolds Foundation is supporting OpenSats with a generous $1M donation, noting that they "warmly invite fellow philanthropists to join [them] in supporting this groundbreaking endeavor."

OpenSats Receives $1,000,000 Donation From The Reynolds Foundation

The Reynolds Foundation is supporting OpenSats with a generous $1,000,000 donation.

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5 months

OUR FOURTH WAVE OF NO STRINGS ATTACHED OPEN SOURCE BITCOIN GRANTS: - Splicing in LDK - Bitcoin Core Testing Suite - BLAST - Scaling Lightning - Satsigner - Firebolt - The Bitaxe - The Bitcoin LARP Game - Braidpool

Fourth Wave of Bitcoin Grants

OpenSats is funding 8 more open-source projects in the bitcoin ecosystem.

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3 years

>_ hello world Our website () is officially live for our ~soft~ launch. If you are a contributor to #Bitcoin Core or related free and open source projects, we hope you apply to be pre-listed on our site for when we launch our full donation platform soon!

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1 year

The LTS program has a longer time horizon than regular grants, geared towards long-term stability for grantees. The first recipient is @MarcoFalke , a long-term maintainer and contributor of Bitcoin Core with thousands of contributions over many years. 🫡

Long-Term Support Program for Bitcoin Core Developers

OpenSats is launching long-term grants to support Bitcoin Core contributors and similar load-bearing internet people.

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2 years

We're over 50k donations in the last 12 hours. Bitcoin, for everyone.

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10 months

BREAKING: OPENSATS TO PROVIDE LONG TERM SUPPORT FUNDING TO BITCOIN CORE DEV GLEB NAUMENKO 🫡

Long-Term Support For Gleb Naumenko

OpenSats Welcomes Gleb Naumenko as an LTS Grantee.

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29 days

ANNOUNCING THE OPENSATS EDUCATION INITIATIVE As part of our commitment to fostering knowledge and understanding of Bitcoin, starting today we are accepting grant applications specifically focused on Bitcoin educational projects.

Announcing the OpenSats Education Initiative

We are proud to announce the OpenSats Education Initiative, spearheaded by Dread.

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@OpenSats

3 years

We are bullish on bitcoiners. We will build a better future.

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8 months

WE APPROVED TEN MORE GRANTS. ONWARD 🫡

Third Wave of Bitcoin Grants

OpenSats is funding 10 more open-source projects in the bitcoin space.

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@OpenSats

2 years

Proud to announce that we've now added BTCPayServer and Bitcoin Policy Institute as approved projects on You can now donate to these projects through our 501(c)(3) and receive a tax deduction Proud to support these and other amazing FOSS Bitcoin projects

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@OpenSats

2 years

We’re looking for a general manager to help lead the Bitcoin nonprofit. We can offer a 1 BTC (maybe more if people chip in) salary in order to manage the org, handle day to day ops, manage inbound grant and project requests, and reach out to business and community for funds.

abitcoinperson

@abitcoinperson

2 years

I started @OpenSats because Bitcoin and FOSS needs a sustainable funding mechanism & the free rider problem is a yet to be solved issue. Everyone gets, nobody gives. We offer a 100% passthrough mechanism so every dollar you give goes where you want it to, and you write it off.

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LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR WILLIAM CASARIN @jb55 is a prolific contributor to a twitter alternative that cannot be mentioned on this platform without this post being shadow banned. Which is exactly why his work is so important.

Long-Term Support For William Casarin

OpenSats Welcomes @jb55 as an LTS Grantee.

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9 months

BREAKING: OPENSATS TO PROVIDE LONG TERM SUPPORT TO BITCOIN DEV 'FURSZY' We are now providing long term support funding to seven bitcoin devs. This is in addition to the 50+ project grants we are also funding. Onward 🫡

Long-Term Support For Furszy

OpenSats Welcomes Furszy as an LTS Grantee.

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1 year

Josi Baker is our newest LTS grantee. Josi will receive long-term support from OpenSats for his continued work on Bitcoin Core. Additionally, Josi plans to work on the libbitcoinkernel project as a reviewer, tester, and contributor.

Long-Term Support For Josi Baker

OpenSats Welcomes Josiah Baker as an LTS Grantee.

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14 days

SIXTH WAVE OF BITCOIN GRANTS We are excited to announce our sixth wave of Bitcoin grants, reaffirming our commitment to supporting freedom tech and projects that help bitcoin flourish.

Sixth Wave of Bitcoin Grants

OpenSats is funding 7 more open-source projects in the bitcoin ecosystem.

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2 years

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6 months

We are very excited to award a Long-term Support Grant to @renepickhardt , helping him continue his fundamental research on improving Bitcoin’s overall usefulness as a payment system through the Lightning Network.

Long-Term Support For René Pickhardt

OpenSats Welcomes René Pickhardt as an LTS Grantee.

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1 year

If you are an open source contributor apply here:

Apply for Funding - OpenSats

Apply for an OpenSats Grant

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3 years

We’re warming to sats, to be honest…We now have a basic understanding. We own some.

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3 years

Hello, Russell.

OKUNG 🐆

@RussellOkung

3 years

How do these open source bitcoin projects make money to sustain themselves?

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5 months

LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR BRUNO GARCIA The creator of bitcoinfuzz, a tool essential for detecting bugs within Bitcoin and is contributing to ASMap, a feature designed to fortify the Bitcoin network's resilience by encouraging nodes to diversify connections.

Long-Term Support For Bruno Garcia

OpenSats Welcomes Bruno Garcia as an LTS Grantee.

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6 months

Our latest Long Term Support grantee, @0xB10C , builds bitcoin network monitoring tools, notably the Bitcoin Core tracing framework, providing detailed insights into network activities.

Long-Term Support For 0xB10C

OpenSats Welcomes 0xB10C as an LTS Grantee.

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2 years

Gonna have to setup some email filters due to the generosity of the Bitcoin community. We are all Satoshi.

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LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR FIATJAF This LTS grant will enable fiatjaf to focus on some of his nostr side projects, such as nostr-tools, nos2x, go-nostr, khatru, eventstore, njump, loure, wikistr, patch34, nak, gitstr, song, mmm, and promenade.

Long-Term Support For fiatjaf

OpenSats Welcomes fiatjaf as an LTS Grantee.

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2 years

OPENSATS IS LIVE FOR DONATIONS! 501(c)(3) nonprofit with 100% donation passthrough to contributors to #Bitcoin free and open source projects. Give back to bitcoin AND get a tax write off! Easily donate fiat or bitcoin to a specific FOSS project you like or to the general fund!

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@abitcoinperson

2 years

Happy to announce we officially launched @OpenSats this week. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity with 100% passthrough for fiat or bitcoin donations… all going to support contributors to #Bitcoin free and open source projects, via a general fund or project specific donation.

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8 months

Supporting freedom tech projects is much more effective than arguing with corrupt politicians on twitter. We just approved seven more grants. 76 grants total. Funded with bitcoin. Onward 🫡

Fourth Wave of Nostr Grants

OpenSats is funding seven more open-source projects in the nostr ecosystem.

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1 month

FIFTH WAVE OF BITCOIN GRANTS Our goal is to provide sustainable funding for FOSS contributors, especially those who make Bitcoin flourish. Over the last couple of weeks, our board has selected ten more projects for funding.

Fifth Wave of Bitcoin Grants

OpenSats is funding 10 more open-source projects in the bitcoin ecosystem.

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2 years

Hey Bitcoiners 👋 We could use some inbound for a fundraiser we're putting on soon. If you'd like to open a channel to support FOSS, here's our node info:

OpenSats - 037c86...b01f09 - Amboss Space

OpenSats - 037c862ec724bc85462aaeb804dd0941cd77dc4521cabd05edf3d0f23ed6b01f09 - 40 channels - capacity 221,714,975 sats - Bitcoin Mainnet - Amboss Space

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@OpenSats

2 years

We could use some inbound liquidity for donations for free and open source contributors to bitcoin. We’re 100% passthrough, take nothing, and give everything we get. Thanks plebs.

OpenSats - 037c86...b01f09 - Amboss Space

OpenSats - 037c862ec724bc85462aaeb804dd0941cd77dc4521cabd05edf3d0f23ed6b01f09 - 40 channels - capacity 221,714,975 sats - Bitcoin Mainnet - Amboss Space

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@OpenSats

2 years

Special shoutout to @john_zaprite and @futurepaul for all their hard work to help build out our website. Paul built the entire website and John has been helping us with all of our accounting and email integrations. OpenSats wouldn't exist without them. Thank you guys so much.

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FIFTH WAVE OF NOSTR GRANTS Including these 11 projects, we have now issued a total of 57 grants to various nostr projects. Additionally, we are providing long-term support for exceptional nostr developers such as Pablo, Stuart, hzrd149, Will, and Yuki.

Fifth Wave of Nostr Grants

OpenSats is funding eleven more open-source projects in the nostr ecosystem.

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10 months

BREAKING: OPENSATS TO PROVIDE LONG TERM SUPPORT TO MATT MOREHOUSE WITH FOCUS ON LIGHTNING NETWORK SECURITY

Long-Term Support For Matt Morehouse

OpenSats Welcomes Matt Morehouse as an LTS Grantee.

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10 months

We are now providing long term support to Vasil Dimov. Vasil started contributing full-time to Bitcoin Core in 2020. Since then, he has worked on various improvements, focusing mostly on the networking layer of the software. Onward 🫡

Long-Term Support For Vasil Dimov

OpenSats Welcomes Vasil Dimov as an LTS Grantee.

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1 year

thank you plebs 💪

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5 months

One of the things we are most proud of is the success of our long-term support program. The idea is simple: we want devs to work on the freedom tech they are passionate about, without having to stress out about how to pay for food or rent every month.

Long-term Support for Nostr Developers

OpenSats is offering long-term support for nostr developers.

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2 years

Excited to announce we’ve hired a General Manager for OpenSats! Welcome to the team @harptheflarp !

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3 years

What lightning network contributors are most deserving of a grant? We’re particularly interested in the underfunded & have some bitcoin to give away thanks to our amazing donors. This one(s) is from @bottlepay More to come, funded by others like @SwanBitcoin & @shakepay soon :)

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7 months

Can't stop. Won't stop. Onward 🫡

Long-Term Support For Tobin Harding

OpenSats Welcomes Tobin Harding as an LTS Grantee.

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2 years

OpenSats is also live on Amazon Smile! Every time you make a purchase at , Amazon makes a donation to OpenSats to support #Bitcoin FOSS contributors. Here's the link to our page if you'd like to set us up as your default charity:

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@OpenSats

2 years

We’re live for donations on the @benevity platform which hundreds of large corporations (like Google, Twitter, Starbucks, etc.) use for corporate giving and donation matching.

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LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR PABLOF7Z We hope that our long-term support will allow Pablo to work on freedom tech for many years to come. Pablo is a prolific open source dev, his notable projects include: NDK, nsecBunker, Shipyard, Highlighter, and Wikifreedia

Long-Term Support For PabloF7z

OpenSats Welcomes PabloF7z as an LTS Grantee.

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3 years

Happy to announce OpenSats was able to raise 5,415,996 sats + $358 USD during our silent auction at Bitcoin 2021. When our USD funds clear our Stripe account, we will smash buy Bitcoin! At today's prices, OpenSats' silent auction raised a total of: ~6.3M sats or $2,466 USD

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11 months

New month, new LTS grantee! Sjors Provoost is the latest bitcoin core developer receiving long-term support from OpenSats, alongside Marco Falke and Josi Baker. Onward 🫡

Long-Term Support For Sjors Provoost

Sjors Provoost receives long-term support from OpenSats.

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10 months

BREAKING: OPENSATS ANNOUNCES FUNDING FOR 12 ADDITIONAL NOSTR PROJECTS BRINGING TOTAL TO 31 🫡

Third Wave of Nostr Grants

OpenSats is funding another dozen open-source projects in the nostr ecosystem.

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1 month

LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR YUKI KISHIMOTO Yuki is the maintainer and creator of rust-nostr. This project includes a high-level nostr client library, language bindings, and more.

Long-Term Support For Yuki Kishimoto

OpenSats Welcomes Yuki as an LTS Grantee.

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LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR SHASHWAT VANGANI This LTS grant will enable Shashwat to focus on the deployment of BOLT-12 within LDK, with a particular focus on blinded paths, invoice overpayments, and retrying invoice requests.

Long-Term Support For Shashwat Vangani

OpenSats Welcomes Shashwat Vangani as an LTS Grantee.

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2 years

We doubled our channels and 20x’d our inbound capacity with one tweet out to the community. If we really needed help, the community is there. Support for bitcoin and open source is so strong. We love you all and stay tuned. Some big things coming.

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@OpenSats

2 years

Hey Bitcoiners 👋 We could use some inbound for a fundraiser we're putting on soon. If you'd like to open a channel to support FOSS, here's our node info:

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3 years

Any #Bitcoin artists like the idea of donating a piece of work to OpenSats so we can run a silent auction at Bitcoin 2021? All auction proceeds would go to fund contributors to Bitcoin core + related free and open source projects. If so, hit us up :) #bitcoinart

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2 years

Almost 1000 unique donations in day.

#WEAREALLHODLONAUT

@defendingBTC

2 years

@OpenSats Legal Defense Fund now has live donation tally!

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Donate Anonymously or Get a Tax Deduction. All Funds Held in Bitcoin. All Grants Paid in Bitcoin. We Take No Cut. 100% of Donations Go to Open Source Contributors.

OpenSats

OpenSats is a 501(c)(3) public charity that aims to support and maintain a sustainable ecosystem of funding for free and open-source projects and contributors, especially bitcoin-related projects and...

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2 years

You can now give back to Bitcoin devs online or in-app. Donate to OpenSats on our web portal at or from within The Bitcoin Company mobile app.

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@theBTCco

2 years

🚨NEW FEATURE: DONATIONS🚨 Donate to @OpenSats & other Bitcoin open-source projects + contributors directly in our app! All funds are given to OpenSats to distribute to the project you choose @ZeusLN @thunderhubio @RoninDojoNode @BitcoinQ_A @SparrowWallet @JeremyRubin @fanquake

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2 years

Bitcoiners are the best. Thank you plebs.

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3 years

In honor of this momentous follower milestone, here’s an announcement of an announcement. Very soon we will be soft launching our website with a simple call to action for #bitcoin and FOSS contributors to apply to be pre-listed on our site for our hard launch in May. Stay tuned

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11 months

OpenSats aims to be a low-time preference, long-term thinking organization. We focus our funding and efforts on open-source code and education projects that will prove to provide long-term value for Bitcoin as infrastructure. 🫡

Looking Ahead: Bitcoin Infrastructure This Decade

What will the next decade of building Bitcoin's infrastructure bring?

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11 months

We are proud to present the Nostr Design initiative, spearheaded by Karnage and Daniele. They stand ready to help open source developers with product development, UI/UX, as well as general design considerations. 🫡

Take Nostr Mainstream with Help from Nostr Design

OpenSats is proud to present the Nostr Design initiative, spearheaded by Karnage and Daniele.

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11 months

OpenSats is looking for a bitcoiner to head the initiative’s fiat operations. A truly paradoxical role. Join us 🫡

Bitcoiner Jobs | The Bitcoin Job Board

Bitcoiner Jobs is the leading career site helping to build the emerging Bitcoin industry and the careers of Bitcoiners within it.

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2 years

For anyone who wants to assist us with our designs for the OpenSats... we've published our Figma design files below. Anyone is welcome to contribute.

OpenSats Website | Figma

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2 years

@jespow @hodlonaut @mcshane_writes @bradmillscan @LynAldenContact @druidian @coinbase @krakenfx @scarcedotcity OpenSats could use support for our fiat donations Jesse. Right now @thebtcco is covering all fiat payment processing fees for donations, but they’re poor. A 2-3% donation match from Kraken would cover all credit card fees. We could also use your exchange to buy BTC w/ no fees.

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3 years

We made a thing.

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3 years

Excited to launch @OpenSats () today. It’s a nonprofit that I’ve been working on with @matt_odell @udiWertheimer @J9Roem @niftynei @jamesob @PoleVaultDream @_k3tan @eiaine to support contributors to #Bitcoin Core and other free and open source projects.

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9 months

OpenSats to provide long-term support for Will Clark. Will is a Chaincode alumnus and BTrust (formerly Qala) mentor who has been contributing to Bitcoin Core for several years. Onward 🫡

Long-Term Support For Will Clark

OpenSats Welcomes Will Clark as an LTS Grantee.

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1 year

stay tuned FOSS contributors....

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4 years

>_ hello world >_ just checking in >_ making serious progress :) >_ stay tuned

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1 year

We appreciate all the hard work that goes into building and maintaining critical open-source infrastructure. A hard and often thankless job. We hope we can play a role in closing the gaps in bitcoin open-source funding, and look forward to supporting more contributors.

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3 years

ADDITIONALLY!!!! Amazing thanks to @zebedeeio ! They raised 1M sats at the Bitcoin 2021 @MintGox esports arena and choose to donate their proceeds to open source #Bitcoin development via @OpenSats The Bitcoin community is absolutely incredible!

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LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR HZRD149 Hrzd149 is the creator of noStrudel, a fast web-based nostr client. He is also the brain behind Blossom (Blobs Stored Simply on Mediaservers), which aims to simplify the storage and organization of digital files.

Long-Term Support For hzrd149

OpenSats Welcomes @hzrd149 as an LTS Grantee.

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LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR STUART BOWMAN Stuart is the main developer and maintainer of Satellite Earth, a web-based nostr client and CDN1server that is geared towards self-sovereign communities.

Long-Term Support For Stuart Bowman

OpenSats Welcomes Stuart Bowman as an LTS Grantee.

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2 years

@hodlonaut @ndeet @Adelgary @ODELL @thecolinbrown This has been the first stress test of our platform...which is open source & available for anyone to contribute to () At this point, its basically just ❤️ @futurepaul ❤️ stepping up and implementing these changes on the fly. Designer help would be awesome.

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3 years

Correction: it’s everyone’s project. We are all Satoshi and we all benefit from free and open source tools.

The Bitcoin Conference

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3 years

“If you are benefitting from Bitcoin, which I think we all are, you should give back to the people who maintain it because we are all winning right now.” - @abitcoinperson on his project @OpenSats

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7 months

OPENSATS 2023 YEAR IN REVIEW

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1 year

The LTS program is a new way for OpenSats to support long-term contributors building, maintaining, testing, researching, and reviewing critical software. Qualified developers should apply here:

Apply for Funding - OpenSats

Apply for an OpenSats Grant

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4 years

>_ hello, world! Announcing our new logo, created by @shua_lippe who put his time/money where his mouth is to help us, and the larger #bitcoin and open source community. We hope you like it. We're just getting started. Thanks again @shua_lippe

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Special thanks to all the artists who gave back by generously contributing their pieces: @zetra_art @NYCPunter @isabellasg3 Dennis, the young artist behind and selling his sketches for #Bitcoin in order to buy a Ninentdo DS ->

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Donations to OpenSats are tax deductible. If you have a large tax bill, consider supporting freedom tech before the end of the year. All donations are 100% pass through to open source contributors. We do not take a cut.

OpenSats

OpenSats is a 501(c)(3) public charity that aims to support and maintain a sustainable ecosystem of funding for free and open-source projects and contributors, especially bitcoin-related projects and...

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@OpenSats

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@ColumbusBitcoin @jack @SeedSigner Keith received a full time grant from HRF. We told him to reapply when that funding ends. Any devs working on seedsigner (or any other FOSS project) are welcome to apply.

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@OpenSats

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The Bitcoin and FOSS communities are currently the subject of targeted litigation. The continued threat of litigation serves as a disincentive for contributors to devote their efforts to the advancement of Bitcoin and open-source projects, and hinders their ability to freely

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@OpenSats

3 years

If you know any individuals/companies that want to give back to open source like our early sponsors ( @bottlepay @silvergatebank @Coinkite @Ledger @TheBtcCompany @FossGregfoss @jlppfeffer @JeremyRubin @nodl_it @SwanBitcoin @Ten31_io ) plz send them our way:

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@OpenSats

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and openly discuss the projects and communities to which they contribute. In response, OpenSats has established the OpenSats Legal Defense Fund which aims to defend open-source contributors from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin and FOSS ecosystems by directing

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@OpenSats

2 years

We’re live for donations on the @benevity platform which hundreds of large corporations (like Google, Twitter, Starbucks, etc.) use for corporate giving and donation matching.

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@hhua_

2 years

. @OpenSats is now officially in Google's company-wide give system. Google employees' donation to #Bitcoin open-source work via @OpenSats will be 100% matched by the company.

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Do you know any good free and open source contributors?? Please encourage them to apply to have their project pre-listed on our site () for when we launch our full donation platform. This will give them a new way to receive funding for their amazing work!

Apply for Funding - OpenSats

Apply for an OpenSats Grant

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@OpenSats

4 years

We are all Satoshi

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@OpenSats

4 years

We want to enable end users make tax free contributions: 1) directly through to #bitcoin core developers and/or related free, open source projects 2) to a general fund to be later distributed to vetted grant recipients DM if interest in helping in any way.

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@OpenSats

4 years

Looking for any front end devs / web devs who could help take our website designs to life. Shoutout to “your name here” for stepping up and building something good for the world.

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@OpenSats

3 years

@lokul @SGBarbour @upstreamdatainc We could start a community funded initiative to fund a small mining operation: a few rigs at a stranded natural gas flare, where the proceeds continually give back to #Bitcoin Core contributors every month. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyone got an extra gas flare and some ASICS laying around?

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LONG-TERM SUPPORT FOR HODLBOD Our mission at OpenSats is to provide sustainable funding for the builders and maintainers of critical open source infrastructure.

Long-Term Support For Hodlbod

OpenSats Welcomes Hodlbod as an LTS Grantee.

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donations to fund any related legal fees which may arise from their contributions, thereby minimizing the financial repercussions of litigation which can discourage contributors from actively working on and openly discussing Bitcoin and open-source projects.

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@OpenSats

4 years

Just want to update the amazing #bitcoin community on progress. We’re already an incorporated charitable organization in NC, but are finalizing our documents for the IRS for 501c3 federally tax exempt status. Website, Corporate bank account, and fiat pmt processor coming soon!

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@OpenSats

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Bitcoin Magazine

@BitcoinMagazine

3 years

Investment firm @Ten31_io has announced it will be supporting @OpenSats and @BitcoinQ_A with grant funds sourced from its management fees. @hardeyjumoh covers the news

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