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npub1xgyj...gu7s 1 year ago
I honestly believe that we are all trying to do the right thing here, but I agree that the distribution of opensats grants could be better. @ODELL or @Gigi how feasible would it be to allow donations to be made to either the general opensats fund or an opensats project of our choosing? Do you think that would help @jb55
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Single devs with shoestring budgets are criticized for not having everything ready for everyone. I guess the solution is just to shove everyone into the KYC’d VC funded one with lots of employees. Pretty sad that this is where nostr is headed. I guess this is jacks vision for nostr now so it must be done. The biggest threat to nostr is a handful of influencers who control the funding and can pick the winners. Purple is my attempt at breaking free from this, but I feel like it’s already a losing battle.
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npub1xgyj...gu7s 1 year ago
Right now, when I donate to opensats I'm outsourcing the vetting of the projects and letting them decide which projects get different amounts of funding. I'm not a dev and I can't review all the projects, so I have lass of an issue trusting them to vet projects. But if people have concerns with board members choosing the level of funding, that is something we could empower individuals to decide, right? Or maybe even by category. Like what if I want to donate to fedimint projects only, or only new LDK features (Bolt12), or only new lightning mobile wallets. This would also help with the latest Saylor FUD... Have a no protocol changes fund, or a layer 2 only fund. Just brainstorming really though. Contributing to FOSS projects is literally mission critical to the future of Bitcoin. We need to make sure that aspect of Bitcoin remains as decentralized as possible. Just throwing out ideas.
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npub1xgyj...gu7s 1 year ago
Yea maybe. I think I'm unsuccessfully trying to point out that it's hard for non devs to identify legit projects that deserve funding, while also pointing out that it's impossible that only 9 people can bring totally unbiased opinions on funding. Is there a way to decentralize it more without having to go all the way down to the individual project level?
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npub1xgyj...gu7s 1 year ago
Oh nice! I have actually been looking for something like this 👍
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