Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

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  • What happens if some of those tax the unrealized gains bills pass in some country where they have obligations?

    They would have to either pay the tax on gains or write off losses.

  • I just regret not holding on to my Bitcoin back then.
  • At least a part of it should go to Kibaale Children's Centre imho.
  • well, I just emailed the project just to see if they're aware of it

    part of me feels like this is most likely a defunct wallet and nobody involved with the project has the keys anymore

  • It's not real money, try and cash it out and you will get scammed.
  • I hope they still have the private key.
  • I’ve read so many news stories of people gone missing who had been know to have sole access to bitcoin wallets with large amount of bitcoins in them.

    I wonder how people at large crypto exchanges handle that. Perhaps shamir share the access to the pkey password and store parts at secure places like a bank? And make official access protocol akin to dnssec, but simplified?

  • For a reference point, when I was unemployed and between jobs, I got involved with Neovim for fun, and after some contributions, I eventually tried some full(ish)-time paid work. I wrote the native lua LSP client (:h vim.lsp, and the nvim-lspconfig repo) for Neovim in a few weeks for about $3k USD (circa 2019)? This amount could fund quite a lot of work to be sure.

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