None of that means anything to people with ideas. Are you saying none of my ideas are worthy of funding until I have already invested the time and money to get them off the ground? That doesn't even make sense. Every project has a different scope and a different team behind it. Clearly ONOSENDAI was validated by the OS board enough to get funding, and I'm grateful for that. Is it some conspiracy or is it just a tool you haven't wrapped your brain around yet? You were talking about metaverse bs plenty in CornyChat, so why the hate for this one metaverse project? Do you see a marketplace for ostrich NFTs on ONOSENDAI? Do you see ethereum support? Do you see Solana or DEX integrations? No you just see a metaverse that links to Nostr. Why is that bad in your eyes? Or, unworthy of funding by OS?

Much more happened behind the scenes before Will got the grand for Damus and it's not for me to reveal this here.

Hi @:P. I'm sorry to hear you don't like my project. As far as having skin in the game, perhaps you missed the part of my post where I mention that I went from being a full time employee (at a job I'd had for 16 years) to part time so that I could work on nostr. Reducing my benefits and income felt like skin in the game for me. OpenSats exists to give people opportunities like this. Now I am full time nostr and working for a nostr company. No grants. My case is fairly ideal in that in one year OpenSats helped me go from hopeful nostr dev to full time nostr dev. I am very grateful for that opportunity. I hope others have similar successes. If OpenSats can get people to move from fiat world into full-time nostr dev and not depending on grants, that's a win right? Additionally it may bring you peace of mind that my grant was probably one of the smallest grants OpenSats has awarded in terms of money. I believe my work on ONOSENDAI has yielded some benefits to nostr at large. Here are some points that you might appreciate: - I developed a generalized NIP-13 mining algorithm for web which other clients can use. This algo is more efficient than existing algorithms. - I developed the first Nostr client that transports 3D data over nostr. This could be used in a host of applications not limited to tweet transport. - I developed a coordinate system that can serve as a superset of geospatial positioning systems, increasing integration between nostr and real world locations. As you can see from the community response to my announcement, people seem pretty excited about a permissionless metaverse where actions are consequential. No such thing exists outside of Nostr. I don't know what lies ahead, but if any metaverse matters in the future I want it to be one where proof of work matters more than privilege or authority. At the very least I think that ONOSENDAI stands as a testament to exploring possibilities with nostr and I hope it inspires others to be wildly creative and push the boundaries of this protocol that I love so much. In my announcement I mentioned I launched the straylight.cafe ditto community. In my free time I am committed to nurturing the new cyberspace community to grow and develop it. Even though my grant is over I want to see cyberspace thrive. You don't have to change your mind. I just thought you might appreciate some perspective. PV