Jack Dorsey Formalizes Legal Defense to Protect Bitcoin Developers

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The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is a nonprofit organization that aims to minimize legal headaches that prevent software developers from actively developing Bitcoin and related projects. The Fund includes developing litigation strategies, finding and retaining defense counsel, and paying legal bills. The fund will start with a corps of volunteer and part-time lawyers and the board of the Fund will take care of determining which lawsuits and defendants it will help defend. This includes the Bitcoin privacy protocols and Lightning Network, among other Bitcoin related projects, which includes the Lightning Network.