Maelstrom, a decentralization-focused enterprise agency managed by the household workplace of BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, introduced in a press launch Thursday that Jon Atack (GitHub profile) is the second recipient of its Bitcoin Grant Program, to proceed his analysis and growth work. In accordance with a bio, Atack began contributing to Bitcoin Core in 2019 and lately was made a maintainer and editor of the Bitcoin Enchancment Proposals (BIPs) repository. “Bitcoin isn’t perfect,” Atack stated within the press launch. “Among other things, it needs further decentralization, continued vigilance, review, bug-fixing, updates, maintenance and improved robustness, performance, privacy, scaling, documentation and user experience.” Maestrom awarded its first developer grant earlier this month, after unveiling the program in July. The aim is to fund open-source Bitcoin builders, since not like many more moderen crypto tasks, Bitcoin has no single firm or basis driving the technique or offering top-down funding.
