Grant puts $1.2 million on table for bitcoin protocol development

A group of bitcoin companies has joined together to launch the Bitcoin Development Grant, a $1.2 million grant fund for bitcoin protocol development.
The fund will be used to support teams working on bitcoin protocol development, foster greater diversity of innovation and, according to the grant page, improve freedom of choice for bitcoin users. It’s led by Bitcoin.com (Saint Bits LLC) and BitMain Technologies Ltd., with support from Xapo Ltd., ANX, BitBank, BitBays, Bitcoin Colombia, Blockchain, BTCGhana, CoinATMRadar, Mycelium, Purse, Luxstack and others.
The fund is taking an approach of being agnostic towards bitcoin forks, or departures from the standard protocol, noting that ‘no particular implementation of the bitcoin protocol holds claim to being the ‘official’ version of bitcoin’ and that it will support a diversity of bitcoin protocol implementations.

This post was published at Silicon Angle on Nov 17, 2016.

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