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

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