{"id":31102,"date":"2020-11-02T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31102"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:02:50","slug":"square-crypto-awards-grant-to-bitcoin-wallet-interface-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/square-crypto-awards-grant-to-bitcoin-wallet-interface-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Crypto awards grant to Bitcoin-wallet interface designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Square Crypto, the initiative from Jack Dorsey, announced a grant to designer Maggie Valentine, who is focused on making wallets user-friendly for people without technical know-how.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Giving trick-or-treaters Open Dimes and Square Crypto grants this year. Speaking of which, this one goes to Maggie Valentine (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magglevalentine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@magglevalentine<\/a>), a designer working to simplify wallet onboarding flows by reducing technical jargon and increasing user education.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Square Crypto (@sqcrypto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sqcrypto\/status\/1322216609486950401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The grant will fund the development of an intuitive solution for widely accessible, secure storage of one\u2019s first cryptocurrency. Valentine argues that lack of technical know-how should not be a barrier to using Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cExisting wallets overwhelm users who do not understand cryptography with complex concepts. Not everyone understands what a private key and a seed phrase are,\u201d according to her proposal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">These learnings will be published in the \u201cBest Practices\u201d and \u201cRecommended Actions on First-Run\u201d sections of the Bitcoin Design Guide. Here\u2019s her very, very detailed proposal: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Dlflq8j7D\">https:\/\/t.co\/2Dlflq8j7D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf83\ud83d\udc7b<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Square Crypto (@sqcrypto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sqcrypto\/status\/1322216610891993095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Valentine expressed gratitude and urged interested parties to share proposals with her.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let\u2019s go! \ud83d\udd7a\ud83c\udffb Super excited for the upcoming months and would \u2764\ufe0f to hear thoughts \/ feedback from anyone passionate about making better wallet experiences <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4FenjMYA2x\">https:\/\/t.co\/4FenjMYA2x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maggie Valentine (@magglevalentine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magglevalentine\/status\/1322219990561419272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Square Crypto is funding enhancements to the Bitcoin ecosystem under the \u201cOpen Dimes and Square Crypto grants\u201d programme.<\/p>\n<p>In June this year and at the end of last year, Square Crypto provided grants to develop the Lightning Network. The first recipient of the company&#8217;s funding was the developer of the BTCPayServer payment processor.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Crypto, Jack Dorsey\u2019s initiative, announced a grant to designer Maggie Valentine, who focuses on making wallets user-friendly for people without technical knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1358,2009,57],"class_list":["post-31102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-grants","tag-square-crypto","tag-wallets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31104,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31102\/revisions\/31104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}