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?
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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