This comment only got down voted because the traditional VC crowd is upset that something has come along which can disrupt their tight funnel which gives them a monopoly on venture capital and the corporate acquisition pipeline.

My open source project is now receiving funding/sponsorship from a cryptocurrency company.

I had applied to Y Combinator and various incubators in my country many times over the years but was consistently rejected because VCs didn't understand what I was doing - The founders of many of these cryptocurrencies (especially the more popular ones) actually understand technology very profoundly and so I am having much more luck there. I think that some cryptocurrencies are literally 'smart money'.