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February 28, 2023, 12:44:20 PM
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From a 10 second google search:

https://bitpay.github.io/
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/06/09/ibm-donates-code-improvements-to-open-source-hyperledger/
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/04/07/square-cryptos-new-grant-funds-popular-bitcoin-blockchain-explorer/
https://twitter.com/Ryan_Singer/status/1618989456069099520
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-coinbase-open-source-fund


Not to mention as others and myself have said a lot of times it's 100% unmentioned donations. For some reason you seem to think large companies should be telling people what they do with their money. I'm sure with a cup of coffee and some time there are 1000s more that are out there but not discussed.

Case in point; BitPay, years ago they were using a library (they did not write it, just a common open source app) that was hacked with the potential to steal users crypto:
https://cyware.com/news/a-bug-in-the-copay-and-bitpay-apps-enables-a-hacker-to-steal-bitcoins-cdf92aba
Do you think businesses want to deal with that kind of thing.
It was a big deal because it WAS BitPay who released it, if if was the DaveF app, it would have been a footnote about it. But because it was a major company who released it, a shit-storm occurred.

-Dave



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