10 months ago, HRF launched its Bitcoin Bounty Challenge, based on features at-risk activists and dissidents wanted to see in Bitcoin, based on months of surveys and research
We didn’t know what to expect but the results have really blown us away
We have by this point awarded full or partial bounties in *7 of 11* categories
Completed or partially completed?
-Open-sourcing the design guide
-Serverless Payjoin
-E2E Encrypted Nostr Group Chats
-Silent Payments
-Self-custodial mobile LN addresses
-Mobile Border Wallets
-Cashu
Still up for grabs?
-Human Readable Bolt12 Offers
-Easy Mobile Multisig
-Frost Multisig Wallet
-BIP47 Expansion
224 days left!
hrfbounties.org
gladstein
gladstein@primal.net
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The Fiat Dashboard


Very important new initiative
http://p2prights.org
A place for anyone to make tax-deductible contributions to help protect open-source developers working on privacy technology, lightning infrastructure, and Bitcoin products
Yes, and eventually this will happen with Bitcoin, not shiny rocks 

Happy that HRF can help support pioneering research at a top academic institution into who is using Bitcoin around the world, and for what reasons:

Cornell Chronicle
BTPI will research relationship between Bitcoin and financial freedom | Cornell Chronicle
The Brooks School Tech Policy Institute (BTPI) has announced a $1M project to study financial freedom in countries with authoritarian governments. ...

474 BTC out of a volcano later...
Still can't believe this happened
Oslo, June 5
🇳🇴 🌀 

Let’s just say these bounties were very, very fruitful
What a difference 18 months makes, feels like a different age 😅 

The Fall of Rome, W.H. Auden (1947)
The piers are pummelled by the waves;
In a lonely field the rain
Lashes an abandoned train;
Outlaws fill the mountain caves.
Fantastic grow the evening gowns;
Agents of the Fisc pursue
Absconding tax-defaulters through
The sewers of provincial towns.
Private rites of magic send
The temple prostitutes to sleep;
All the literati keep
An imaginary friend.
Cerebrotonic Cato may
Extol the Ancient Disciplines,
But the muscle-bound Marines
Mutiny for food and pay.
Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK
On a pink official form.
Unendowed with wealth or pity,
Little birds with scarlet legs,
Sitting on their speckled eggs,
Eye each flu-infected city.
Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.
Tough times in Nigeria



Norway, June 3-5! 🇳🇴
Here are some speakers, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg
There are ~100 super high signal Bitcoiners and privacy/freedom tech builders joining
All inside of a wider 1,000+ person conference based on human freedom
An event within an event
Creates a very cool experience 🤙

Oslo Freedom Forum
Financial Freedom Track
Join us for the Financial Freedom Track at OFF Agenda View full agenda Meet our Financial Freedom Speakers If you are interested in sponsoring the ...

Just so you know what they are going to try and go with: 

New essay up at the Journal of Democracy on how to Dictator-Proof your money
Hint: Bitcoin!


Journal of Democracy
How to Dictator-Proof Your Money | Journal of Democracy
Cash is king, even if you are an activist leading a democratic movement against some of the world’s worst dictators. That’s why Bitcoin has qui...
Art and imagery for the Oslo Freedom Forum’s upcoming Financial Freedom Track on June 3-5 in 🇳🇴
The design from Kanuto just became a lot more timely
The graphic will be our centering logo for all events June 3-5 and the art (“Freedom Collaboration”) will be auctioned off, proceeds to supporting open-source Bitcoin privacy development 🌀


Legend
Be like Hal 

HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund has made several grants to JoinMarket projects and contributors
Now would be a *great* time to apply for funding to do this kind of work!
Feel free to DM me if you need the link to apply