Btrust Grantee Spotlight
Written by Sharon Nkatha When I first started learning about Bitcoin, I understood it as money. I knew it was a decentralized monetary network and that a lot was happening underneath the surface. What I did not understand was what any of that meant for me as a software developer.
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Written by Ansh Sharma A year and a half ago, my idea of Bitcoin open source was mostly a Discord server I visited late at night. Today, I work on Braidpool, a decentralized mining pool, with long-term support from Btrust. I didn’t have a plan that connected those
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When people talk about decentralizing Bitcoin development, the conversation often starts with geography: more developers from more countries contributing to the software that runs the network. However, a developer can live in a country with a growing Bitcoin community and still have no clear path into open-source work. They
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A Btrust grant is easy to see as a finish line. A developer applies, the work is reviewed, the funding is announced, and the congratulations follow. Then the announcement fades from view and the developer gets back to work. This is where the more interesting part begins. A grant gives
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Written by Solomon Eze My journey as a software engineer wasn’t entirely a straight road. For me, it started with curiosity, a laptop, and the belief that, if I keep learning long enough, I could build things that would be useful to people. My first doorway into software was
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Global Majority, 23rd September, 2026 — We’re excited to announce the Q3 2026 Btrust developer grant recipients. This quarter, ten Bitcoin open-source developers are receiving support, including five starter grant recipients and five long-term open-source cohort members. This quarter also marks an important first: Btrust developer grants
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Global Majority, 16th September, 2026 — We’re excited to announce three new recipients of Btrust’s long-term developer grants: plebhash and Leonardo Souza from Brazil, and Ansh Sharma from India. Their addition marks an important expansion of Btrust’s developer grant program beyond Africa into more regions of the
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Bitcoin doesn't have a shortage of developers who could contribute meaningfully to it. It has a shortage of developers who can afford to. Open-source development requires sustained technical attention, but for many engineers, contributing to Bitcoin has to compete with the work that pays their bills. Reading
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Written by Chuks Agbakuru There’s a problem that’s been annoying bitcoin users for years, and it’s almost embarrassingly basic: receiving money shouldn’t feel this clunky. You end up copying and pasting a long string of random characters, then crossing your fingers that nothing gets messed up.
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CriterionBitcoin's RequirementSignature size64 bytes (Schnorr, BIP-340)Verification speedFast enough for full node throughputSigning speedFast enough for payment channel state updatesSecurity assumptionWell-studied, conservative, quantum-resistantCryptanalytic maturityDecades of failed public attacksConstant-time implementationReliably achievable in practice CriterionML-DSA (FIPS 204)SLH-DSA (FIPS 205)Original AlgorithmCRYSTALS-DilithiumSPHINCS+Hardness
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Walk into a BitDevs meetup for the first time and you may feel as though the conversation started before you arrived. Someone might be discussing a recent change proposed for Bitcoin Core. A few minutes later, the group moved on to a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal, better known as a BIP,
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Over $900k awarded across five education initiatives supporting Bitcoin open-source development in Africa and the Global Majority.