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Brink funds both hebasto and fanquake who both contributed for many years before Brink funded them. So Im not entirely sure the generalization is true. And to your point, I do think there is balance in this regard.
We do fund newer contributors as well, especially through out designed-to-fund-newer-contributor fellowship program.
I suppose someone could do analysis to see average tenure of funded engineers per org. But I wouldnt expect Brink would be funding less-experienced engineers on average.
Its not clear why engineers that are "more flexible and open to new ideas" would be desirable for Brink or Bitcoin. Brink doesnt direct engineers' work and the valuable ideas in Bitcoin are mostly old ideas and principles, and more often boring and not new.
What kind of data or metrics could be tracked and shared with the wider community to build more trust in the process?
I think more people doing more code review solves a lot of issues and cuts to the criticality of development. Anything else, like age at first contribution, favorite food, or hair color are trivialities that only distract from important scrutiny.
So please look at the code
https://github.com/bitcoinbrink/website/tree/master/assets/files/2026-03-26-engineering-impact-report-2025/
look at our reports
https://brink.dev/blog/2026/03/26/engineering-impact-report-2025/
If you know OG Bitcoin Core developers that are looking for funding, please let me know, but I dont think there are any that are not funded.
Sometimes I feel a sentiment towards OG bitcoin devs that they already have enough BTC (funding) to keep going. I think is a bit wrong sentiment. Even that are OGs, maybe they didn't accumulate enough BTC these years or they do not have the proper rails to live off those BTC...
Indeed, I am somekind of OG myself (not dev) and I know personally an OG from veeeery early days (ObiWan that introduced me to Bitcoin) that have even more BTC than Saylor.
But you see, OGs are kind of something else than regular bitcoiners (the 2020 generation) do not understand so well... and many are still trying to keep those values or the early days.
a common observation in the space is that Brink and similar funders tend to support younger devs more often.
How does Brink think about this balance? Are there any intentional approaches to support a broader range of experience levels and viewpoints?
And how do you think Brink should manage or counter this perception? What kind of data or metrics could be tracked and shared with the wider community to build more trust in the process?
Or maybe Brink doesn’t worry about it much. there will always be criticism, and with multiple funders in the ecosystem, these things tend to balance out overall.