{"id":124512,"date":"2020-12-02T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bitmain-reportedly-cuts-off-funding-to-bitcoin-core-developers\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:27:54","slug":"bitmain-reportedly-cuts-off-funding-to-bitcoin-core-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitmain-reportedly-cuts-off-funding-to-bitcoin-core-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"# Bitmain reportedly cuts off funding to Bitcoin Core developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Bitmain reportedly cuts off funding to Bitcoin Core developers <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAtMTIvZDgwYjMxMzgtZTBlNS00OTkwLTkxYTAtZWIyNzQwYTNkMzBkLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>Bitmain, one of the world\u2019s largest Bitcoin (BTC) miner producers, has reportedly halted its funding for some primary developers maintaining Bitcoin-related software.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Schnelli, a major Bitcoin Core contributor and maintainer, claimed that Bitmain halted its support after funding his efforts for more than three years. <\/p>\n<p>In a Dec. 1 tweet, Schnelli <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_jonasschnelli_\/status\/1333704973486600192?s=20\">said<\/a> that he lost his sponsorship from Bitmain alongside Joao Barbosa, another Bitcoin Core contributor also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/promag\">known<\/a> under the \u201cpromag\u201d nickname on GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks Bitmain for all the help (despite the disagreement we had),\u201d Schnelli tweeted, asking the crypto community to contribute to his further efforts on Bitcoin Core.<\/p>\n<p>Bitmain did not respond to Cointelegraph&#8217;s request for comment as of publishing time.<\/p>\n<p>HEX founder Richard Heart subsequently commented that other companies would be willing to fund the Bitcoin Core project as Bitcoin hits new all-time highs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Surely with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> making new all time highs, some whale out there would like to fund its development.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Heart: HEX.com 40% APR. 263x in 301 days\u2b23 (@RichardHeartWin) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardHeartWin\/status\/1333739067226394625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> users also suggested that Bitmain could have found better ways to spend their money than funding the Bitcoin Core project. \u201cI consider it a miracle that they were still being funded by them,\u201d one Redditor <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/btc\/comments\/k4p8fx\/jonas_schnelli_today_i_lost_my_sponsorship_after\/ge9zq6j?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin Core is a major open-source project maintaining and releasing Bitcoin client software. 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Jonas Schnelli, a major Bitcoin Core contributor and maintainer, claimed that Bitmain halted its support after funding his efforts for more than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-12\/d80b3138-e0e5-4990-91a0-eb2740a3d30d.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,82451,80944,74863,75042,117,4973,73821],"class_list":["post-124512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-core","tag-bitmain","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-mining","tag-business","tag-china","tag-developers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}