NVK is stepping down from the OpenSats board, effective immediately. OpenSats will continue to operate with an 8 person board until a replacement is made.
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"We can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years." (But we can't do it without your support.)
A quarterly update from OpenSats:
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Sats Well Spent — 2026-Q2: Territory of Freedom
Someone has to do it: how OpenSats is funding the builders behind a free and open internet.
"The biggest secret is just long hours, attention to detail, and hard work." — @utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
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Meet Barry Deen, the Webmaster Behind Wisp
Wisp is Barry Deen’s nostr client, built so everyday people can use the network without fighting it.
The last Pathshalas closed in the 1960s. @npub1l65a...sfth wanted to do the same thing for bitcoin. Bitcoin pathshala. Bitshala.
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Rajarshi Maitra Found a Point of Light in the Dark Cave, Quit His Job, and Built Bitshala
Rajarshi Maitra walked away from a stable engineering career to build Bitshala, India's school for Bitcoin developers.
"Bitcoin changed the way I view the world, my values, and a big part of my personality. I strongly believe it changed me for the better." — @Egge
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Egge’s Bitcoin Journey: From Marketer to Cashu Maintainer
Bitcoin took Egge off the predictable path, leading him towards a brilliant career in FOSS.
OpenSats is pleased to announce long-term support for Calvin Kim in recognition of his ongoing work on btcd and utreexo. 
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Long-Term Support For Calvin Kim
OpenSats welcomes Calvin Kim as an LTS grantee.
40 billion sats. 400+ grantees. 40+ countries. 
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Map - OpenSats
Countries where OpenSats has awarded grants.
Heartbeat now supports GitLab and plain git repos. Click the heartbeat icon on any project page to see the latest development activity. Example: 
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WireGuard - funded by OpenSats
A lean VPN protocol and software suite for secure networking across servers, phones, and desktops.
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heartbeat · live bitcoin & nostr open-source activity feed
Live feed of commits, pull requests, issues, and releases across the open-source bitcoin and nostr projects funded by OpenSats.
OpenSats has supported many projects for multiple years. Most projects accept donations directly, and we encourage everyone to support them whenever possible. 
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Project Showcase - OpenSats
A showcase of free and open-source Bitcoin and Nostr projects supported by OpenSats.
Lots of building blocks, lots of progress. A closer look at some of the nostr libraries our grantees have been working on. 
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The Libraries Behind Open Communication
An impact report from the front-lines of nostr developer libraries.
In our latest newsletter we said that we want to "tell the stories of the people who are working on freedom tech." Our spotlight series aims to do just that. Here's the first installment: 
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Made in Africa: Kurt and the Open-Source Bitcoin Miner That Anyone Can Make
Meet Kurt Unger, the OpenSats grantee who's building Bitcoin mining hardware that's understandable, repairable, and open.
New wave of nostr grants: 44Billion, NosCall, Routstr, Wisp, and Zapstore.
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Seventeenth Wave of Nostr Grants
OpenSats is funding five open-source projects advancing the nostr ecosystem.
We just published the first issue of "Sats Well Spent" - a quarterly newsletter from OpenSats. You can read it in full here:
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Sats Well Spent — 2026-Q1: Cypherpunks Write Code
A quarterly look at the free and open-source projects OpenSats supports, the builders behind them, and the impact your donations make possible.
Twice a year we plan to highlight a focus area where we would like to see strong proposals. This spring, said focus area is base layer privacy.
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Call for Applications
OpenSats is seeking grant proposals that advance base layer privacy.
OpenSats remains committed to funding builders who keep Bitcoin's hardware infrastructure open, auditable, and accessible.
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Open Hardware for Open Money
An impact report from the front-lines of bitcoin hardware development.
New wave of nostr grants: Amethyst Desktop, Nostr Mail, Nostrord, and Nurunuru. Onward 🫡 
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Sixteenth Wave of Nostr Grants
OpenSats is funding five open-source projects advancing the nostr ecosystem.
JoinMarket, rawBit, Specter DIY, and six grant renewals for projects we've funded in the past. Read more about this most recent wave of OpenSats grants on our blog: 
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Seventeenth Wave of Bitcoin Grants
OpenSats is funding nine more open-source projects advancing the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Back in 2020, @fiatjaf described relays as deliberately simple and dumb. Are they still? We are taking a closer look at some of the relay projects we funded and how they evolved. 
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Advancements in Nostr Relays
An impact report from the front-lines of nostr relay development.