Funding
Over the past years, I’ve received support and funding from multiple sources for my open-source work. Without this support, I wouldn’t have the time and freedom to work on the projects I think are important for Bitcoin. I publish this for transparency and to give credit. The funding is no-strings-attached. I’m not affiliated with the supporters in any other way.
Expenses
Generally, I use the funding to cover:
- hosting: e.g. VPSs and domains
- hardware: e.g. server, laptop, work phone, ..
- travel: e.g. to conferences or CoreDev
- rent: e.g. a dedicated office room
- admin: e.g. accounting
- a modest salary for myself
- taxes
Community Donations
From time-to-time, I’m asked if I accept community donations. While my grant funding covers my expenses, I accept community donations as no-strings-attached and voluntary support. These aren’t payments and they come with no expectations or guarantees:
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For no-strings-attached and voluntary donations to b10c you can use:
onchain (coming soon!)
LN via BOLT12 ₿bolt12@b10c.me
silent payments (coming soon!)
Or use one of my referal codes for:
bitrefill.com https://www.bitrefill.com/invite/0xb10c (we both get $5 after you spent $200)
obscura.net VPN https://obscura.net/refer#amerch (we both get 1 month free after you pay for your first month)
2026-02-04 - 00000000000000000001baaa4c670e352d04ce047d9d4113ce068be824b1dc10
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Funding and Work-Logs
OpenSats Work-Log 8
This is a copy of the 8th work-log I sent to OpenSats for my LTS grant.
OpenSats Work-Log 7
This is a copy of the 7th work-log I sent to OpenSats for my LTS grant.
Support from LocalhostResearch for peer-observer
Localhost Research supported my peer-observer project by sponsoring three servers for a demo instance, which can be found on demo.peer.observer. …
OpenSats Work-Log 6
This is a copy of the 6th work-log I sent to OpenSats for my LTS grant.
OpenSats Work-Log 5
This is a copy of the 5th work-log I sent to OpenSats for my LTS grant.
OpenSats Work-Log 4
This is a copy of the 4th work-log I sent to OpenSats for my LTS grant.
OpenSats Work-Log 3
This is a copy of the 3rd work-log I sent to OpenSats for my LTS grant.
OpenSats Work-Log 2
This is a copy of the 2nd work-log I sent to OpenSats for my LTS grant.
OpenSats Work-Log 1
This is a copy of the 1st work-log I sent to OpenSats for my LTS grant.
Long-Term-Support Grant from OpenSats for 2024 and 2025
OpenSats supported my work on Bitcoin in 2024 and 2025 with a Long-Term-Support grant.
Support from MIT DCI for peer-observer
The MIT DCI supported my peer-observer project with six monitoring Bitcoin nodes for 1.5 years.
Grant from Human Rights Foundation
The Human Rights Foundation supported my work on Bitcoin with a developer grant.
Grant from Spiral.xyz for 2023
Spiral.xyz supported my work on Bitcoin for the full year of 2023 with a developer grant.
Grant from Bitcoin Suisse (not accepted)
Bitcoin Suisse suprise-announced that they had selected me for a Research Grant.
Grant from Brink for 2022
Brink.dev supported my work on Bitcoin for the full year of 2022 with a developer grant.
Support from Samourai Wallet for mempool.observer
Samourai Wallet supported my work on mempool.observer with a one-time donation that payed for hosting costs.
ShiftCrypto sponsoring mempool.observer
ShiftCrypto sponsored some of my work on mempool.observer.
Support from Bitrefill for transactionfee.info
Bitrefill supported my work on transactionfee.info (now mainnet.observer).