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Maybe I should log into his npub to see his feeds but I just don't get this sense of captured. I think the number of developers and total commits has to outnumber those funded by OpenSats. To further that point, I don't think as many get that opportunity with Bitcoin. You can refuse an update to Bitcoin Core, but there are so few forks to choose from (at least on the surface) as a node runner there isn't much you can do if you want security patches and so on. Of course unless your a developer and maintain a fork yourself.

Lots/most Nostr devs are funded by OpenSats, but the grants are different sizes and they're not really VCs, since they don't expect a direct return on investment. There are some real VC-funded apps, but I'm okay with that. Nobody forces anyone to use anything. The protocol is not an app; we can implement the whole protocol doing mostly our own thing and playing no inside baseball. As we're proving.

And the comparison to Bitcoin Core isn't apt, as that's a software implementation and Nostr is an open protocol.

Yeah correct. I need to think about a rephrase because I think it's still accurate in terms of current network choice for non-engineers. Nostr users don't and likely won't have the same restrictions. Possibly even a majority of node runners.

His feed is empty. Deleted all his follows. But I remember he had a myopic follow list. I argued with him about that, once, because he kept claiming there was no development going on, but he mostly followed inactive devs from back in the day.