The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has just announced its latest round of Bitcoin Development Fund grants, giving away 10 BTC to various organizations that fight for individual rights.
Human Rights Organization Gives Away BTC
10 BTC is to be distributed to 20 different projects operating around the world. These include initiatives that focus on educating people living in authoritarian regimes about technological innovations. Human rights organizations can also receive grants. These are mainly foundations or associations that operate in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
Who exactly will receive the BTC? It is to be, for example, African Bitcoiners, a community that educates Africans about bitcoin and blockchain technology. Kiveclair will also be supported for similar activities. This is a community in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Funds will also go to Coracle, creators of Nostr, a decentralized, anonymous messaging platform for activists.
Some of the 10 BTC will go to the Harbor wallet, an open-source digital asset wallet designed to provide greater privacy in the use of the Bitcoin network. Also standing out from this group is EttaWallet, a mobile wallet based on the Lightning Network and with open source code.
The Bitaxe team will also be awarded for their work, which is to enable discreet bitcoin mining. This is especially needed in totalitarian regimes.
A portion of the bitcoin funds will go to the Tor Network Operators Association. It is about supporting and developing this anonymity-providing network. The funding will allow for the implementation of nodes that will improve the stability and reliability of onion services and increase the network’s resistance to attacks.
These are just some of the awarded projects. But what will the funds be spent on? Various. Both on hiring new employees, and on developing infrastructure, and finally on organizing training courses on bitcoin.
At war with totalitarianisms
These projects have one thing in common: they are all aimed at totalitarianism. The Human Rights Organization is trying to support them with bitcoins, because cryptocurrency allows them to avoid the control of politicians, and thus to operate those entities whose activities may harm dictators.
