Who Funds Bitcoin Development

Bitcoin is open-source and decentralized. No single entity should control it. But equally, no single entity is responsible for improving it. It is easy for Bitcoin users and companies to free-ride without contributing to Bitcoin development — a classic tragedy of the commons src

An exploration tool for the Bitcoin open-source ecosystem. Showcasing who funds Bitcoin development and what developers are working on.

Contributing

Adding yourself (or any other entity) to the graph

If you are currently working on a bitcoin related open source project, open a PR to get yourself added.

Addition template / available options

{
  "name": "Your name",
  "twitter": "Twitter username without @",
  "github": "GitHub username",
  "website": "Personal website"
  "avatar": "Avatar URL OR GitHub-ID(you can find it in your GitHub avatar link) ",
  "description": "A short bio of 210 characters (limit might change in the future) ",
    "tags": [
    "Bitcoin Core",
    "Lightning"
  ]
}

Adding a funding record

If you are funded, either by employment or grant, after adding yourself to the graph, please add a funding record. If a .json file of your employer or funder already exists, append the record to the end of it. If not, append the record to the misc funding sources (employment.json, funding.json)

Addition template / available options

{
	"source": "Source of grant/employment",
	"target": "Grantee/employee",
	"btc": "{Grant amount if received in BTC} if available",
  	"amount": "{Grant amount if received in USD} if available",
   	"year": "{Year} the grant was announced OR [start, end?] period of employment",
   	"src": "Link to announcement"
}

TO-DO

Missing employment information

• Blockstream
• DG Labs
• Acinq
• Spiral
• Lightning Labs

Local build

The dependencies are managed via yarn. Once you have cloned this repo, you can setup the pacakges with yarn install and then yarn start runs the app in the development mode.

Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.