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HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Grants $325K to Bitcoin Developers

The Human Rights Foundation’s Bitcoin (BTC) Development Fund announced that it spent $325,000 in total to support 12 different developers.

Developers known as Gleb Naumenko and Furszy were granted $50,000 each, marking the highest amount received by the Foundation in this round.

The fund said that Naumenko deserved the amount for his work on the release of Coinpool and conducting research on potential Bitcoin scaling solutions such as SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo.

Meanwhile, Furszy was given the highest amount for his work on Bitcoin Core, which mainly addressed stability, security, and performance problems.

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