Human Rights Foundation

Privacy

Human Rights Foundation Grants Will Advance Bitcoin DeFi, Education and Activism

Colin HarperMar 2, 2021

The software innovations and educational efforts align with the HRF's mandate to protect human rights.

Developer Grants

Gemini Donates $50K to HRF to Help Fund Another Round of Bitcoin Developers in 2021

Colin HarperDec 1, 2020

The Human Rights Foundation has secured donations from the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange to fund even more Bitcoin developers in 2021.

Opinion

The Node: Bitcoin, Warts and All

Daniel KuhnApr 9, 2021

If mass adoption is the aim, we might as well tell the truth about what that world looks like. The whole truth.

Grants

Square Crypto, Human Rights Foundation Ramp Up Bitcoin Development Grants

Leigh CuenAug 5, 2020

Square Crypto and the Human Rights Foundation are continuing their support for an open source Bitcoin developer community with new contributor grants.

Grants

Summer 2020 Is Funding Season for Open-Source Bitcoin Development

Leigh CuenJun 25, 2020

The maker of Wasabi Wallet becomes the latest firm to support crypto coders with a 1 BTC donation to the Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund.

Human Rights Foundation

Privacy

Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy Tools Despite ‘Coin Mixing’ Legal Stigma

Leigh Cuen

The Human Rights Foundation took a strong stance on bitcoin privacy tech Wednesday by announcing its new Bitcoin Developer Fund.

Podcasts

Cellphones, Bitcoin and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein

Nathaniel Whittemore

As protests mount in the U.S., we sit down with an outspoken pro-bitcoin, anti-surveillance human-rights advocate.

Elliptic

‘Financial Surveillance’ or ‘Blockchain Analysis’? Human Rights Foundation Debates Elliptic

Brady Dale

Blockchain analysis is "a euphemism" for surveillance, HRF Director Alex Gladstein told Elliptic's Tom Robinson during a debate on crypto tracing Monday.