Long-Term Support For Brad Stachurski

OpenSats is pleased to announce long-term support for Brad Stachurski in recognition of his ongoing work on Fedimint, a federated Chaumian ecash system for Bitcoin.

Brad has helped coordinate core releases and operational improvements that make Fedimint safer to upgrade and easier to run. As a co-maintainer, he focuses on the security, reliability, and operability of production deployments. He shipped the v0.8.0 release, which included “Fedimint In-A-Box” enhancements such as Iroh-based connectivity for federation operators and a StartOS package for mainnet federations. He has continued improving the package for clearer configuration options and more dependable backup and restore workflows.

With long-term support, Brad plans to continue work across core maintainer responsibilities, including:

• Coordinate security fixes and safe rollouts across deployments.
• Run releases: testing, compatibility checks, and upgrade support.
• Review codebase changes, including consensus mechanisms and client APIs.
• Improve deployment tooling, including packaging and self-hosted setups.
• Maintain ecash-app and use it as a test client in the release workflow.

I love the behind-the-scenes work of making sure complex financial systems run reliably in production. I'm grateful for the long-term support that lets me stay focused on making Fedimint easier to operate and trustworthy for communities adopting it.

—Brad Stachurski

OpenSats' mission is to provide sustainable funding for the builders and maintainers of critical open-source infrastructure within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

The Long-Term Support program is made possible by the generosity of our donors. To continue supporting contributors like Brad and our other LTS grantees, consider making a recurring donation to the General Fund.