One of Bitcoin core developers has recently receive a grant from the company that owns derivatives exchange BitMEX, HDR Global Trading which will enable the recipient to continue working on Bitcoin codebase.
The recipient of the grant is Michael Ford who is widely known as Fanquake in the developer community, has been working on the Bitcoin code since 2012 and has become the fifth Bitcoin maintainer.
HDR Global Trading states that the grant is non-exclusive and has no string-attached is to enable Ford to continue to maintain the Bitcoin network and push code live.
CTO and co-founder of HDR Global Trading, Sam Reed, reveals that the development on the bitcoin platform relies heavily on the mostly-volunteer work of coders dedicated to the mission and ideals of bitcoin which is often difficult, demanding and thankless; the grant is their way of giving back.
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