{"id":260906,"date":"2024-09-26T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/arthur-hayess-family-office-funds-another-bitcoin-core-developer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:07","slug":"arthur-hayess-family-office-funds-another-bitcoin-core-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/arthur-hayess-family-office-funds-another-bitcoin-core-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Hayes&#039;s Family Office Funds Another Bitcoin Core Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/.image\/c_fit%2Ch_800%2Cw_1200\/MjA2Nzg1MjU2Nzk0MTA1NjE5\/single-bitcoin.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maelstrom.fund\/\">Maelstrom<\/a>, the family office of former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes, has awarded Jon Atack a one-year Bitcoin developer grant. He is the second recipient of <a href=\"https:\/\/maelstrom.fund\/bitcoin-grant-program\/\">Maelstrom&#8217;s grant program<\/a> supporting open-source Bitcoin developers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jonatack\">Jon<\/a> is an experienced contributor to Bitcoin Core, having started in 2019. He was also recently made a maintainer of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/arthur-hayes\">Arthur Hayes<\/a> said, &#8220;We hope this financial support allows Jon to focus on his work on Bitcoin without worrying about income.&#8221; He emphasized the grant&#8217;s no-strings-attached nature, giving Atack freedom to work independently.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s open-source codebase depends on voluntary developers, so grants help enable more contributors to work full-time. Proponents believe having more funded developers benefits Bitcoin&#8217;s ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Jon said, &#8220;I&#8217;m concerned about human freedom, decentralization of power, individual empowerment, privacy and self-sovereignty. Bitcoin and open source software play a key part in striving for these causes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He plans to spend the year reviewing proposals and changes to improve Bitcoin Core and BIPs. Jon stated, &#8220;Bitcoin isn&#8217;t perfect. It needs further decentralization, continued vigilance, review, bug-fixing, updates, maintenance, and improved robustness, performance, privacy, scaling, documentation and user experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maelstrom aims to strengthen Bitcoin through no-strings grants to developers like Atack. Simultaneously, he is also receiving funding from another organization, OpenSats.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/arthur-hayess-family-office-funds-another-bitcoin-core-developer\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Maelstrom, the family office of former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes, has awarded Jon Atack a one-year Bitcoin developer grant. He is the second recipient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}