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Bitcoin Unlimited Announces Research Grant Program
The team behind a long-contentious proposal to upgrade the bitcoin protocol is making new funding available for research.
The team behind a long-contentious proposal to upgrade the bitcoin protocol has announced it is making new funding available for research.
In a blog post today, the Bitcoin Unlimited team revealed it has "several hundred thousand" dollars available to fund work it believes will help restore "Satoshi’s vision" for a global peer-to-peer digital cash system.
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The statements reflect criticisms of Bitcoin Core, the protocol's dominant development team, who have pushed to implement top-level networks that extend bitcoin's functionality without altering its current blockchain rules. Bitcoin Unlimited, by contrast, promotes the idea of on-chain scaling that would boost the number of transactions that could be settled directly on the blockchain, but bring additional consensus changes.
Areas where Bitcoin Unlimited is seeking submissions include longer-term scaling initiatives; incremental scaling improvements; empirical studies; quality control; and outreach.
Additional details about the application process can be found here.
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Pete Rizzo
Pete Rizzo was CoinDesk's editor-in-chief until September 2019. Prior to joining CoinDesk in 2013, he was an editor at payments news source PYMNTS.com.
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