It’s an unfortunate reality that when dealing with the inherent problems of centralization, some people can’t grasp the systemic cause and effect, and need to blame or attack other people. Centralized funding creates centralized behavior.

If we want to avoid single points of failure opensats creates a bigger problem than it solves…? The goal is Liberty right? Freedom of speech and freedom of money. It seems the best peaceful way is to transfer capital and crash the fiat printer war machine- i.e. more high-income fiat jobs that transfer capital to the network helps more than living completely inside the circular economy? Can the entire project be more of a part-time thing?

It would be great if they could explain what safeguards they have in place to mitigate bias, and to avoid a conflict of interest. This topic has been brought up before, but instead of providing an explanation, or reassurance to the public, there was just a bunch of yelling and “trust me, bro” replies. This is why I, and why I always will, simply pay for what I use and support the devs that are open with their stated goals and outlook on their projects, directly. There’s no reason for me to donate to an organization, when I can pay/donate directly. Direct funding with bitcoin is a much better alternative than sending it to somebody who then gains power and kingmaker status.

Only way is to sell a product or service for profit That's it. That's the game. Done.

Bro, you invented Zaps. Update the client with a v4v dev feature allowing for a percentage of every zap is captured and sent to Damus. You missed that one thing during initial implementation. View quoted note →