Bitcoin Private Foundation Announces Research Grants for Cybersecurity and Cryptography Projects

In a recent announcement, the Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Foundation stated that it would award a series of $150,000 grants to research projects that cover a number of topics, including cybersecurity and cryptography. It is looking to sponsor projects that last anywhere from three months to a year, with the grants being distributed on a rolling basis. It is not, however, the first cryptocurrency foundation to offer such grants. The creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, announced in January that the Ethereum Foundation would subsidize research looking into increasing the scalability of Ethereum’s blockchain. In his statement, Buterin stated that the scalability of the network was “perhaps