Maelstrom, a decentralization-focused venture run by the family office of BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, announced in a press release on Thursday that Jon Atack (GitHub profile) has become the second recipient of its Bitcoin Grant Program. The company announced that it will continue research and development. work. According to his bio, Atack started contributing to Bitcoin Core in 2019 and recently became a maintainer and editor of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) repository. “Bitcoin is not perfect,” Atack said in a press release. “Among other things, we need more decentralization, continued vigilance, reviews, bug fixes, updates, maintenance, robustness, performance, privacy, scaling, documentation, and improved user experience.” Maestrom announced the program in July We then awarded our first developer grant earlier this month. The goal is to fund open source Bitcoin developers. That's because unlike many new crypto projects, Bitcoin doesn't have a single company or foundation driving its strategy or funding it from the top down.
