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.

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.