"Bitcoin company" suffers from no true scotsman problem.

Theres no two people who would fully agree on whats the definition of it.

If you truly think about it anything incorporated in any jurisdiction is not a bitcoin company but a fiat company working in bitcoin space at best.

Until you are ruled by the rules of fiat world (regulation, jurisdictions, permission to wipe you ass) can you really be a bitcoin company?

then again you can look at this differently (as i'm starting to). We are in war for freedom so the only "purity" test worth smelling is "is the output of this endeavor moving us a step closer or a step further from freedom". Sadly that is fairly hard rule to have when judging from the outside but its fairly easy as a personal creed.

So in the end taking VC money, creating a new public company, grants from HRF and OpenSats, nothing really matters. Do it all, suck every last bit of funding you can from anyone that is willing to part with any money out there. Just direct it to a good cause. And it doesn't mean that you need to fall on your sword and just work on random freedom tech stuff that will never see the light of day. No, actually building successful businesses and enabling other businesses to succeed is the best way to make a difference.

If you look at cypherpunks of the 90s lots of them were independently wealthy, working for big corps, sipping margaritas after dotcom boom etc. The point being that achieving some level of comfort and creating a profitable business is the actual fuck you move. Not checking out life and living in squats that are falling apart.

Bitcoin is the promised savior, but we will actual need to build that better world, and what better way than to collectively drain every bit of energy and resources available and direct it towards that future.