Thank you for taking the time to answer questions.
In your role as a board member of opensats, what is your goal for the development of Nostr? Who do you believe you are accoutnable to?
In your role as a managing partner of Ten31, what is your goal for the developement of Primal? In this role, who are you accountable to?
Do you believe that these two roles are free from any overlap, or conflicts of interest? If not, why?
Lastly, do you think that being a managing patner of a VC firm may have a dampening effect on criticism from other developers who receive grants from opoensats, who are not aligned with the methods/development/design of Primal?
Once again, thank you for taking the time to discuss this with the community.
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WE NEED A DIVERSE ROBUST FOSS ECOSYSTEM ACROSS BOTH BITCOIN AND NOSTR. THIS IS MY PRIMARILY GOAL ACROSS EVERYTHING I DO.
PRIMAL CANNOT SUCCEED WITHOUT A ROBUST NOSTR ECOSYSTEM. THIS IS WHY MILJAN MADE THE ENTIRE PRIMAL STACK FOSS.
I STRONGLY BELIEVE FOSS DEV COMPOUNDS. IT BENEFITS EVERYONE.
I DO NOT WANT DEVS TO SELF CENSOR. I DO NOT PERSONALLY HOLD IT AGAINST THEM IF THEY SHIT ON ME.
OPENSATS IS NOT PERFECT BUT WE TRIED OUR BEST TO BUILD IT IN A WAY THAT ATTEMPTS TO MITIGATE A LOT OF CONCERNS THAT ARE INHERENT WITH A CENTRALIZED ORG. BUT IT IS STILL CENTRALIZED.
IDEALLY MORE PEOPLE SUPPORT DEVS DIRECTLY.
IDEALLY WE HAVE MORE ORGS PROVIDING FUNDING IN THE SPACE. IDEALLY SOME FOSS PROJECTS DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE ETHICAL BIZ MODELS (SPARROW IS A GOOD EXAMPLE HERE.)
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, DISPATCH IS LIVE AND UNEDITED. SOME OF THESE CONVERSATIONS MAY BE MORE PRODUCTIVE IN THAT FORMAT WHICH IS WHY THE SHOW EXISTS IN THE FIRST PLACE. I WELCOME THEM.
No one is fault-less. But some are faulty and donate to open source devs.
Thats makes all the difference here.
Thank you for taking the time top respond.
In an attempt to clarify what you have said, and to further my understanding, I am going to summarize your answers. If I have misintrepreted anything you have said, I apologize, and welcome any clarification.
In response to my first question, it seems that you believe that it is opensats' role to help further the development of the entire nostr ecosystem. That it should seek out the best projects that are aligned with this goal.
You also believe that your VC firm's investment in Primal, can't be successful without a diverse and expansive ecosystem to support it.
You didn't really answer my second question, and once again please clarify if I missed it , but I am assuming, based on what I have read from you before, that Primal presents tradeoffs that are acceptable to you as an investor, because nostr needs an access point for the masses, with the least amount of friction in terms of onboarding people to bitcoin and nostr.
And in response to last question, I am assuming that you don't believe that this presents poor optics, or any reason for people to think there is a conflict of interest? That your invesment in Primal should not be of any concern to anyone who has received a grant?
Based on your answers, and the assumptions I have made, is this the way you see your role, and the roles of opensats and ten31:
1. Opensats (non profit) should be used to build out the ecosystem
2. Ecosystem flourishes
3. Thereby making Primal and my investments more likely to succeed
4. Primal is great for onboarding people to bitcoin and nostr and this is needed and it's filling a hole in the market. Thereby making nostr more likely to succeed.
5. Return on my investment is good, investors are happy.
6. My personal return is good
7. Nostr is successful
8. Everyone is happy