"Let git be git. Let nostr be nostr." — @DanConwayDev
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Good Luck Banning a Key Pair
We can bring back git's decentralised roots with nostr.
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"On one side was Google, the big name, the fancy offices, all of that. On the other side I could work on Bitcoin, which I found both technically fascinating and genuinely important." — @danielabrozzoni 
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Daniela Brozzoni Turned Down a Google Internship to Work on Bitcoin
Daniela Brozzoni was just 19 when she turned down an internship at Google to follow a career in Bitcoin and FOSS.
“A global decentralized protocol should also have a broad and decentralized base of people who understand it deeply enough to maintain, review, and challenge it.” — @npub12a6h...clwp 
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Bruno Garcia Is Making Bitcoin More Resilient Through Testing and Education
Bruno Garcia's goal is to make Bitcoin more resilient not only by testing its code, but also by bringing more Brazilian developers to it.
Tor and WireGuard are two major projects supported by OpenSats. This impact report takes a closer look at them both: 
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Open Infrastructure for the Bitcoin Network
An impact report from the front-lines of network infrastructure development.
Nym21 built BRK the way a tardigrade lives: on almost nothing, beholden to no one, and hard to kill. 
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Nym21 Made Bitcoin's On-Chain Metrics Free, and the Pros Who Sell Them Came Running
nym21 built free Bitcoin analytics out of spite, and made them so good that the professionals who charge for the same data quietly started using his.
No benevolent dictator, no weird incentives, no short-term thinking, no trusted third parties, and no cut from donations. Why OpenSats is set up the way it is. 
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Avoiding Single Points of Failure
How OpenSats is set up to be as resilient as possible.
"When I was a boy and saw scary things in the news, my mother would say, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'" 
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Helping the Helpers
Supporting those who make Bitcoin as resilient as it can be.
Our node is back up and donations via Lightning are enabled again. Inbound liquidity appreciated while we bootstrap. 
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Red Team Fund - OpenSats
Funding for people red teaming Bitcoin software.
We expect more critical vulnerabilities to be found and patched in the coming days. Keep an eye out for updates via official channels. 
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Ongoing Exploits of Bitcoin Software
A critical BTCPay Server flaw affecting LND is under active exploit.
Code RED is live. Priority support for people red teaming Bitcoin software, including reimbursement of past LLM token costs. 
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Code RED: Priority support for red teaming
OpenSats is launching a new grant track to support people red teaming Bitcoin software.
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.
"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.md
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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.
