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Adds a developer spotlight for Daniela Brozzoni, covering her decision to turn down a Google internship to work on Bitcoin, her contributions to BDK and Bitcoin Core, and her work on privacy, code review, and Red Team outreach.

Daniela Brozzoni — OpenSats Spotlight


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Made some edits/changes regarding formatting.
Also, one of the images needs to be cropped a little on the left to remove white space:

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A good read! Hope you don't mind feedback below.

I couldn't really get that thought out of my head. I didn't want to
be hired because I made some percentage look better. I wanted
someone to care about my brain, my work, and what I could actually
contribute.

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This paragraph is a quotation and should be formatted like the one starting line 28.

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That was not the only thought in Daniela’s mind, though. At the same
time, due to her initial fall in the Bitcoin rabbit hole, she was
starting to really care about the concept of privacy and the whole
philosophy attached. As everyone knows at this point, Big G is not

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Suggest s/the whole philosophy attached/the philosophy behind it/

Daniela’s love for technology – and computers specifically – came at
a very young age. She recalls being 5 years old when she got her
first computer and started tinkering with it, mostly for games and
the internet, but also for a bit of [HTML].

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These above two paragraphs seem redundant; one of them ought to be removed?

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Mmm I guess you are right. I'm going to rework this!

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attended a single class and soon decided to drop out to continue on
the path of [Free and Open-source Software][foss] (FOSS).

Daniela has been an OpenSats grantee [since January 2025][grant post]. She got a

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Daniela has been an OpenSats grantee [since January 2025][grant post]. She got a
Daniela has been an OpenSats grantee [since January 2025][grant post]. She was funded to work on Bitcoin Core

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Hey @jonatack! Thanks for the reviews, I'm addressing them!

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This was an awesome read, thank you for all the time and effort you put into this!! ❤️

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Looks good to me ✅

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