what was the process like to obtain your spiral grant?
how do we get more companies lining up to support bitcoin development?
I knew I wanted to work on/with bdk and ldk so I wrote up a proposal that outlined roughly a years worth of work and submitted it to Spiral. There was a little back-and-forth where they explained the process and expectations a little more clearly and could get a better understanding of what I wanted to work on.
They were pretty flexible as my plans did end up changing quite a lot compared to what I originally proposed. Initially my plan was to focus primarily on DLCs but building out a lightning node (sensei) with bdk+ldk ended up being the core of my work.
I hope that as companies realize how important bitcoin is for the world (and their company) that they will prioritize funding the ecosystem as a core part of their business as Block (and a few others) have.
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Could you share a copy of your proposal? OR resources you recommend for drafting one?
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Sure, they shared it in the tweet thread when they announced the grant. The original document is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1--5Hh9zi2kKEZrvhAhWP_Ge9oUVPm00wcMQ40arYhoI/edit
Like I said though, my work has greatly deviated from the initial idea.
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Thanks so much!
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