Bitcoin privacy tool Payjoin receives $100K grant from Maelstrom

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Maelstrom has awarded Bitcoin developer Ben Allen a $100,000 grant to improve Payjoin, a privacy-focused transaction method that could boost Bitcoin scalability.

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Adrian Zmudzinski

Publish date

May 20, 2025

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Cointelegraph

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-payjoin-privacy-grant-maelstrom

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Bitcoin developer Ben Allen awarded $100K to improve transaction privacy

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According to a May 20 announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Maelstrom will finance Allen’s work on his Payjoin devkit alongside Dan Gould.

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The Maelstrom representative told Cointelegraph that 'a key metric for Payjoin success would be adoption by popular open source Bitcoin wallets.'

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