NEW: HRF announces the Bitcoin Bounty Challenge 20 BTC up for grabs for 10 UX improvements to Bitcoin (mainly focused on mobile wallets) requested by dissidents and human rights groups from across the world 🌍 Bounty #1: Open Sourcing the Design Guide 2 BTC to port the Bitcoin UI Kit from Figma to an open-source Penpot (@Penpotapp) project Currently, the Bitcoin UI Kit is only available in a proprietary Figma file format https://www.bitcoinuikit.com/ Bounty #2: Serverless Payjoin 2 BTC to deploy a production-ready version 2 payjoin protocol which may send and receive payjoin transactions without requiring a sender or recipient to operate a public server https://payjoin.org Bounty #3: End-to-End Encrypted Nostr Group Chats 2 BTC for the creation of end-to-end encrypted group chats powered by any popular Nostr client that do not leak metadata to third parties Users must be able to chat with at least two other Nostr users Bounty #4: Silent Payments 2 BTC for a mobile Bitcoin wallet which can send and receive Silent Payments in a private manner without requiring the user to run a full node https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/silent-payments/ Bounty #5: Human Readable Offers 2 BTC for a human-readable BOLT 12 offer generator feature integrated into a popular iOS or android bitcoin wallet Bounty #6: Self-custodial Mobile Lightning Address 2 BTC for an easy-to-setup self-custodial mobile Lightning address generator integrated into a popular iOS or android bitcoin wallet https://lightningaddress.com Bounty #7: Mobile Border Wallets 2 BTC for the integration of @BorderWallets optionality in addition to a seed phrase for a popular iOS or android wallet The user of the wallet should be easily able to choose to use border wallet functionality to create their seed Bounty #8: Easy Mobile Multisig 2 BTC for the implementation of a “tap or airdrop to create 2 of 3” multisig functionality for an open-source popular iOS or android wallet The wallet must be self-custodial, with a method for users to recover funds using open-source software Bounty #9: Frost Multisig Wallet 2 BTC to a FROST-powered dynamic mobile multisig that allows the user to modify the signer set without moving funds to a new address The wallet must be self-custodial Bounty #10: @CashuBTC 0.5 BTC for a fully-functional iOS Cashu app 0.5 BTC for a fully-functional Android Cashu app 0.5 BTC for an open-source Cashu web widget for anonymous paywalled content 0.5 BTC for Cashu-TS backup restore https://cashu.space ***** We are launching with an initial set of 10 bounty challenges More bounties might be added as we go An individual or team who fully solves any of the ten challenges will be eligible to receive a bounty of 2 BTC For transparency: submissions will be shared with external industry experts to help us discern whether submissions meet bounty requirements HRF will be making decisions in a charitable way for bounty submissions that make a good faith effort to meet the requirements We will be leaning to the spirit, not the letter, of the law Individuals and teams are encouraged to contact bounty at hrf dot org with any questions during the bounty process HRF retains final approval on allocating prize funds The Bitcoin Bounty Challenge will run until December 31, 2024 Any unclaimed bounties will convert into general operating funding for the HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund on January 1, 2025 An individual or team may collect any amount of bounties If a leading wallet maker or for-profit corporation would like to compete, we would be delighted To claim a bounty submit proof to bounty at hrf dot org For full terms and conditions visit hrfbounties.org This project was born out of 6 months of field research where HRF staff met with + interviewed a) dissidents and human rights NGO leaders from around the world and b) Bitcoin developers The goal was to settle on a mix of desired upgrades to Bitcoin that seemed somewhat realistic We fully expect a handful of these bounties to be claimed by the end of next year We fully expect the bounties to spark debate, arguments, new ideas, criticism, and other stuff that may indirectly help Bitcoin and Bitcoin users We *do not expect* all of bounties to be claimed You all have 523 days left Good luck! And big thanks to @BitcoinMagazine for covering the news :) https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/human-rights-foundation-announces-20-btc-bounty-challenge-for-bitcoin-development