- The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is offering a bug bounty challenge with a reward of 20 Bitcoin, currently worth more than $589K.
- HRF has launched ten bounties, each worth 2 BTC, to improve Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is offering ten bounties, each worth 2 around Bitcoin(BTC), to support the development of BTC and the Lightning Network. In an official announcement, HRF said that any individual or group who successfully solves the ten challenges would be eligible for a 2 BTC bounty worth approximately $58,500 at the time of writing.
These bounties are sourced from the HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund and consist of features many would like to experience in Bitcoin transactions.
HRF’s 2 BTC Bug Bounties to Enhance Bitcoin and the Lightning Network
- The first bounty challenge focuses on increasing Bitcoin applications by eliminating the need for proprietary software. HRF is sponsoring the replication of the current Bitcoin user interface Kit on the ‘leading open-source proprietary design software, Penpot. Penpot is free to use and allows the setting up of self-hosted instances.
- The second bounty is dedicated to the development of Serverless Payjoin. The reward will go to the individual or group working to deploy a production-ready version 2 Payjoin protocol to send and receive Payjoin transactions without the sender or recipient operating a public server.The protocol should eliminate third parties that might compromise user privacy. The protocol should also be asynchronous using modern, multiplexed web standards without external dependencies.
- Another 2 BTC bounty will go to creating end-to-end encrypted group chats powered by an established Nostr client that does not leak user data. Users must be able to chat with at least two other Nostr users without outside observers accessing the messages.
- 2 BTC is dedicated to supporting the development of silent payments through a mobile wallet. The wallet should have a backend that multiple mobile wallets can use, open-source and multi-platform, among other efficiency features.
- The fifth bounty is 2 BTC for incorporating a human-readable bolt 12 offer generator feature into a popular Android or iOS Bitcoin wallet.
- Another 2 BTC goes to an easy-to-setup self-custodial mobile Lightning address generator incorporated into a popular Android or iOS Bitcoin wallet. The self-custodial mobile lightning address should not ask the user to set up a personal web server.
- Three more 2 BTC bounties are for improving the Bitcoin wallet components. 2 BTC supports the development of border wallet optionality and a seed phrase for a popular Android or iOS Bitcoin wallet.
- 2 BTC is dedicated to implementing “tap or airdrop to create 2 of 3” multi-sig functionality between three mobile phones using an open-source, popular Android or iOS wallet. The last of the three 2 BTC bounties is towards a FROST-powered dynamic mobile multi-sig that facilitates modification of the signer set by transferring funds to a new address.
- The last four 0.5 BTC bounties are for developing a fully functional Android and iOS Cashu app, an open-source Cashu web widget for anonymous paywalled content, and Cashu-TS backup restore.
Contestants Given Until December 31, 2024, to Apply
This bounty announcement is the second since the first that ran from Dec 2021 to Dec 2022. The organization said that may be additional bounties in the future. Contestants have up to December 31, 2024, to apply.