275 sats \ 0 replies \ @go 15 Dec 2022
2,000,000 satoshis as small tokens of gratitude to people who have contributed to the bootstrapping of the Nostr ecosystem. "This is not a payment for your work of love, because that is priceless, it is just so your efforts don’t go without mention. It is also terrible because there were many other valuable contributions that are not mentioned here and life is sad." 😄
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269 sats \ 0 replies \ @sommerfeld 15 Dec 2022
Time to quit my fiat job and start working on this.
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288 sats \ 1 reply \ @ThrillerX_ OP 15 Dec 2022
Nostr fund https://jb55.com/s/nostr-fund.pdf
(from pdf:)
Microgrants: 200,000,000 satoshis
40 bounties of 5,000,000 satoshis each to projects or pull requests to existing
projects that show up in the following areas:
- Microapps (Nostr apps that do only one thing and do it well)
- An app for just publishing things and reading replies
- An app for just managing your contacts
- An app for just reading threads
- Mobile apps are very much needed
- New use cases besides “social” but that still deliver interoperability and standardized behavior between clients
- Bonus points if these new use cases can be interacted with with from the “social” clients in some way, e.g.
- if you do webpage comments on Nostr you can see and interact with these from social clients as normal posts
- If you do wikipedia on Nostr you can comment on these articles from social clients
- Key management, remote signing, delegation
- Relay discovery
- Because we should not assume everybody will always be in all relays or that clients will talk to all relays all the time forever
- Making existing things prettier and better
- Non-public relays use cases
- Anti-spam techniques
The same person can win multiple of these, or their size can be increased or
reduced according to the size or impact of the work.
The idea here is not that everybody will try to please the grant distributors by
working on things they don’t want while expecting some payment. The idea is
that people will work for free regardless, so they better do something that they
wanted to do anyway. The list of things above serves as a nudge just in case
they’re unsure on what to work on.
Extra work bounties: 400,000,000 satoshis
8 bounties of 50,000,000 satoshis each to projects that have won some of the
grants above such that they keep working on their projects and making them
better, with or without some specified conditions.
Community prizes: 100,000,000 satoshis
For 6 times probably every two months the community will vote on the coolest
projects to win a prize of 16,666,666 satoshis.
Specific tasks
These are things we want to see done and that may have some specific
requirements, kinda like a job. More may be added from community input. If
someone wants to execute these tasks they must put up a proposal first (just
saying “I can do this” basically) and once they are chosen they can start with the
guarantee that they will get the money if they deliver the task, not having to
compete with others.
- A nice website with good documentation: 10,000,000 satoshis
- More to be added from community suggestions
Thank you: 20,000,000 satoshis
2,000,000 satoshis as small tokens of gratitude to people who have contributed
to the bootstrapping of the Nostr ecosystem:
- Richard Bondi (early Nostr tooling)
- Ben Arc (Nostrtwitter)
- scsibug (nostr-rs-relay)
- Jb55 (Damus)
- Supertestnet (Anigma)
- Cameri (nostr-ts-relay)
- eskema (alphaama)
- floppy disk guy (joinstr)
- Leo Wandersleb (nostroid)
- Uncle Bob Martin (more-speech)
This is not a payment for your work of love, because that is priceless, it is just so
your efforts don’t go without mention. It is also terrible because there were
many other valuable contributions that are not mentioned here and life is sad.
(end of pdf)
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ OP 15 Dec 2022
made a more readable web version: https://www.thrillerbitcoin.com/jack-funds-nostr/
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173 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 15 Dec 2022
love the speed and conviction from jack, and big congrats to @fiatjaf. time to build!
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 16 Dec 2022
This just got a lot more interesting now, will be diving into the nostr project, clearly something is happening here
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ OP 16 Dec 2022
The simplicity of the protocol fiatjaf created is an exciting part, also, it's just really fun to build on!
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @thebtctoto 15 Dec 2022
Wow, thats awesome!
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2 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthzar 16 Dec 2022
This is good to see. Maybe this will help Nostr get the attention it deserves.
Is there anything like a KYC requirement for these bounties? I ask because open-source grant programs generally require grantees to fill out an IRS tax form, which is arguably more intrusive than ordinary KYC. This is something that keeps me from submitting grant proposals to grant programs.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ OP 16 Dec 2022
Not sure, but I seriously doubt that would be a thing
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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @Kaffi 18 Dec 2022
can someone summarize what is going on?
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @ThrillerX_ OP 19 Dec 2022
ya https://www.thrillerbitcoin.com/jack-funds-nostr/
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3 sats \ 1 reply \ @Kaffi 19 Dec 2022
thank you! have some sats.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ OP 19 Dec 2022
Thanks
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @satcat 16 Dec 2022
Hopefully, such bitcoin funding makes it easier for founders to not compromise on their original vision while scaling.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SaToSHiWoMaN 10 Mar outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.