Pointing to a wave of “multi-front litigation” that harms Bitcoin development, the Fund promised to extend legal support to anyone forced to yield to protracted legal fights over their work on Bitcoin.

“The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is a nonprofit entity that aims to minimize legal headaches that discourage software developers from actively developing Bitcoin and related projects such as the Lightning Network, Bitcoin privacy protocols, and the like,” Dorsey wrote in an email on the Bitcoin developer’s listserv.

https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/bitcoin/jack-dorsey-launches-legal-defense-fund-to-protect-bitcoin-developers