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like most the blockchains do
Does Bitcoin have grant program?

I'm sure if they have it will brings so much traffic

There are some grant programmemes that many offer through bitcoin, but bitcoin itself doesn't have a grant programme. This is because bitcoin is not a centralised payment method, and this is not an entity in charge of it, so there is no way that anyone in control of bitcoin can offer any form of grant to anyone who is in need of
 
The only thing that one can see is some centralised organisation that deals with Bitcoin transactions in both trading and payment systems and is running some kind of charity in the form of grants to help those who are in need.

Grant in other blockchains are more like incentives for developers to build on their chain in order to reward them, you build something unique just to impress the teams and then get your share of the pool, nothing more. Bitcoin ecosystem isn't like that because all the new blockchains can mint coins and tokens anyhow they like and give to whoever they want to give, bitcoin isn't like that, there will be 21million BTC which makes it more decentralized and the people that have dedicated their life building from day one were the early birds and they are still here doing the free work to see bitcoin succeed without been rewarded in any form.

There is only one reward in the Bitcoin ecosystem and that is mining, I think lots of people are happy doing that for the community and their pockets, and in return, it makes the chain more decentralized and stable.

Never heard of any grant program for Bitcoin but after a bit of research, I found The Human Rights Foundation grants $455,000 to 12 bitcoin projects worldwide from their Bitcoin Development Fund.

Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/human-rights-foundation-grants-$455000-to-bitcoin-projects-worldwide

So it means Bitcoin has some grant programs and I think there are more grants out there.

Bitcoin does not have any grant than you've got with your investment made in bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies and block contract also offers incentives in form of airdrops, NFTs and other coins released, you can imagine a number of people who will go after bitcoin if granted the opportunity to go for it grant, well those that receive sats may also accept such as incentives, but the blockchain will generate more traffic if there's something of such people can apply for.

There's OpenSats (https://opensats.org/mission) too.

Anyone can donate to its General Fund to support open source projects, or directly support projects.

Yes Bitcoin has grant programs. But please note that those grant programs are from third parties. As Bitcoin have no single organization behind it (centralized) which will provide grants program to the developers and builders. That's why after doing some research I found out that the following platforms provide Bitcoin grant programs. And please if you want to join them. Do that on your own. I am just mentioning some platforms that are providing it.

https://spiral.xyz/
https://www.kraken.com/features/grants
https://www.coindesk.com/tag/developer-grants/

Below page consists of almost every grant program that a developer should know about:

https://bitcoinwords.github.io/grants/

Grants within Bitcoin aren't similar with other blockchains whereas the founding blockchain company provides the grants. With Bitcoin, since it's decentralized, you'll need to receive funding from venture capitalists and investors in general. It's pretty much similar anyway.


If you're talking about funding for Bitcointalk, I'm pretty sure little to no one would be interested in trying to grow Bitcointalk — nor would Theymos want it.

Think about how a program like this could be funded if Bitcoin doesn't have a premine. All Bitcoin coins can only be obtained by mining, everything is fair.

Therefore, everything above was written correctly; there are grants from various other funds that contribute to the development of Bitcoin and related decentralized solutions. But there is no grant program from Bitcoin itself. When Bitcoin was created, no one pledged any funds for this, everything was pledged to the honest and transparent operation of the blockchain.

BTC itself don't have but many other people or organizations are providing these programs to motivate developers to make improvements in the bitcoin blockchain and to enhance the adoption rate. This is a great thing. The number of people is not that much because BTC does not have that much adoption yet and how it can get that many blockchain developers.

People who are aware of the BTC want to earn in BTC but those who are not developers have to find another way. And for those, the easiest way is to trade BTC in Future trading. Which is the biggest mistake of every newbie. I am going off-topic here but it can not be ignored.
You have shared some good links and I hope these will help the OP. I was quite amazed to see that many members above were just making posts saying that BTC doesn't have any grant programs. I might be misinterpreting things here. However, I can understand that BTC has no official grant program by their centralized organization. Because BTC is not centralized.

If there was going to be anything like that, it could be the block rewards that are gained by successful miners, maybe that could be an incentive or the grant you get for successfully carrying out the tasks. If not for that, I don't think Bitcoin in itself offers grants and I think it's rational enough to say that. Reasons are that it is a decentralized market where there's no such things like Central authorities that's managing it or regulating the market, not to say that he/she offers users grants. Foundations are mostly in charge of grants or so. And Bitcoin doesn't have such to offer such grant programs.

Bitcoin itself can't have a grant program, since it's a decentralised project. However, initiatives of people working with cryptoprojects (fintech projects, trading projects) can have grant programmes. In general, some blockchain testnets can be considered grant programmes, and they can bring some profit (usually such initiatives are either altcoin or wallet projects).

The grant program of Bitcoin does exist, but it is based on the ecosystem of the community or community-led non-profits. Some grants are also made by for-profit companies that depend on Bitcoin technology and ecosystem. In another case, for example, a Bitcoin Core developer or any open source bitcoin-related developer may get a sponsor from some of these organisations.

Others have mentioned Open Sats, another example of resource of the grants, especially for a developer, which can be seen at Lopp's compilation site relating the information: Bitcoin Charities (https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/charity.html). Finally, I'm not quite catching what you mean by traffic, but surely an output or outcome will be dependent on what is important, not merely based on traffic.

Hmm interesting, I never actually new there is such program on with Bitcoin and I think am not the only one on this and it's funny how you actually think such things doesn't exist till someone actually put a thought or curiosity in your mind. After seeing this reply and the Op thread, I was also curious to find out more about Bitcoin grants and I think I have made some research but haven't got anything valuable on this apart from the actual link you provided and I don't know if it's because my search engine is pretty limited as am a mobile user ?

Oh, what a surprise, giving away many for free brings attention!

First, let me ask you if you meant Bitcoin or bitcointalk, cause I'm really not sure about this since you mentioned "traffic".
Now, if you really meant Bitcoin it's pretty simple:
- Windows doesn't have grant programs
- Microsoft has grant programs

Since there is no company behind Bitcoin that can do such a thing, the obvious answer is NO!

Also, I think a lot miss the real definition of a grant, people or companies pooling money to build something in their own interest is not a grant!
Binance or Kraken giving away money to make their system better, create a btcpay server or anything else is like Amazon offering "grants" in order to develop better Amazon warehouses!

Bitcoin doesn't need any traffic itself. Keep in mind that Bitcoin and Bitcointalk aren't related to each other. The forum is just for discussion about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. So the forum doesn't have anything to attract traffic. Because Bitcointalk is a nonprofit organisation, Due to decentralised behaviour and no team, there is no specific grant programme for Bitcoin. But if anyone wants to do so, they can do it voluntarily. Because holding Bitcoin means you are the owner of it. No one could decide about your Bitcoin holdings except you.

I don't really know what op really mean by grant program but I think he was trying to come up with incentives to people that contribute to the Blockchain. Bitcoin is a decentralized coin and it can be mined based on how we intended to do that. Since there are 21 million Bitcoin to be mined, I think is is a form of incentives to people that are ready to build there own blocks and get the work done by themselves rather then trying to buy from the market and accumulate. No grant program at all but what we are expected to do to earn Bitcoin is to mine it with a sophisticated computers and devices.

Bitcoin is a decentralized currency and there is no single entity or organization that controls it but still there are many third party organizations that offer some grant programs to the developers who contribute their share to Bitcoin. Those third party organizations are supporters of the idea of Bitcoin and its open-source nature, and that's the reason why they offer such grant programs. The aren't having any affiliation with Bitcoin directedly but are the supporters of it's open-source nature and want to help all those developers or contributors who want to add something into it.

Kraken offers a grant program for the Bitcoin developers only because they are lovers of open-source projects and try their best to support such projects. The grants they offer aren't limited to Bitcoin only as they offer such grants for some other crypto-currencies as well. Another such grant program is offer by Okcoin and they have donated more than 1.5 Million USD in their grant program. There are some other such third parties that offer those grant programs to the developers and contributors of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a decentralized currency and not an organization like the IMF or the World Bank. The right question is does any organization give a grant to bitcoin related projects? Like other members have said if you do a thorough research you would find some Bitcoin friendly organization that can fund innovative projects or research which will advance Bitcoin technologies. Last year the Soyapango district in El Salvador offered entrepreneurs Bitcoin grants.
 https://www.google.com/amp/s/cryptoslate.com/salvadorian-entrepreneurs-can-now-claim-a-100000-bitcoin-grant/%3famp=1

Bitcoin blockchain is an unique one and it does not like most of other blockchains.

If you see other blockhains and their projects have Grant programs, it does not mean Bitcoin must has a Grant program too.

I believe I am not wrong to say best developers have their projects and works on Bitcoin blockchain. Lower quality developers work with a biggest scam altcoin and its blockchain, Ethereum ERC20. Lower lower quality developers work on many other blockchains.

I do not think that Bitcoin can grant programs, I mean there's no central authority, so who is going to grant them? But I guess there are organizations that might used Bitcoin to grant other institutions so this might be closest that we can see.

As for the traffic you mentioned, I understand that it must be promotion? We don't need that kind of promotion or marketing though. Bitcoin is growing whether someone promote it or not.

Bitcoin does not have a grant program like that of altcoin developers in general, but the Bitcoin support community often holds grant programs for core developers, for example, as happened at previous years,

SOURCE-- (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/hrf-awards-325000-bitcoin-grants)

SOURCE-- (https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/05/31/human-rights-foundation-gives-out-210k-in-bitcoin-development-grants/)

satoshi created Bitcoin with an open source concept so anyone is ready to be involved in Bitcoin development but there are still votes that limit it cmiiw

There isn't a way coded into the protocol that sets aside a portion of block rewards for establishing a dedicated fund. Several altcoins and tokens have a founder's reward or a pre-mine that does this. It would be a bad idea for Bitcoin to have this because it can be abused by developers setting up deals that favor themselves and other insiders. Independent organizations sponsoring developers is a better way to ensure it is a fair playing field and only deserving people get compensated. There are several exchanges, businesses, and non-profits which sponsor Bitcoin developers.

Yes but Bitcoin community grant, I do believe there is companies out there that can give you a grant in form of Bitcoin when you make some app or Startup.

The other altcoin also has grant because they controlled the supply of the coin and most of newly created coin has the tokenomic for community grant. It can be a bug bounty or created new ecossytem on chain etc. Usually later 2 has the program.

OP, NGOs, the government, and some large private firms can give grants because they have the money to do so and they are operated under a centralized system, with orders being taken from different individuals, but Bitcoin is decentralized and not operated by any firm or the government, so who will give the grant?

There is nothing like a Bitcoin grant; if any NGO or private firm wants to give you a grant, they can decide to do so by using Bitcoin, but that doesn't mean that it was Satoshi Nakamoto that gave you the grant.