We love Nostr. And indeed, lot's of great Nostr initiatives indeed.

One thing I'm excited about is people recognizing that Bitcoin, Nostr and Geyser are open systems and that anyone with a great idea can just go on here and help fund it. All these nostr initiatives arose from spontaneous action from the community, and the community made those ideas happen.

What we'd love to see is this spontaneous continuing to flourish throughout the space and infect newby builders, educators, creatives to know that this is possile!

Thank you for contributing to these great initiatives. They would not be possible without your support! ❤️

We're also really excited about seeing the entire Nostr ecosystem come together and through Geyser fund these great initiatives. It's truly inspiring and we're lucky to be playing this important role.

@steliosats and I were throwing words around and Stelios brought it up and we loved it. I liked the fresh and different branding to it, the fact that it's associated to a natural resource, and the fact that it's this powerful display of kinetic energy that happens when there is a strong power projecting it, just like crowdfunding campaigns that go viral and everyone notices them and they have massive impact

Geyser is all about bringing ideas to life, and getting support from your community. It's about transforming potential energy into kinetic energy. We thought geysers was a great representation of that.

We don't crowdfund, creators do! :) Geyser is an open platform.

If you mean, would we help funded, I'm sure the Bitcoin/Geyser community would love to!

There are a few related project on Geyser: https://geyser.fund/project/runwithbitcoin https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinetaeu https://geyser.fund/project/theblackmambas

Let us know if you want to chat and get started. You can dm us on X!

BTC Books:

Non-BTC:

You mean we could not fund or, ideas that are just bad?

There are bad ideas, I won't lie, but if you don't try and improve you'll never know :)

We don't operate in sanctioned countries and we recently limited our ability to reach certain countries in sensitive conflict zones. For funding in these areas we recommend using more censorship resistant, self-hosted solutions.

We recently had a Grant partnership with Bitcoin Thailand Conference, which was a blast. We had over 20 new project spawn from it, and so many interesting Bitcoin initiatives we'd never heard about!

Check them out: https://geyser.fund/grants/11

Email login is coming very soon, and you'll be able to use whichever email you like.

Best is subjective!

But for the most funded you can check out our leaderboard: https://geyser.fund/leaderboard

Maybe our founders: @steliosats and @metamick can give their take ;)

At Geyser we do operate a very slim fiat account, and proud of that ;)

Unfortunately I do still operate some fiat for things like rent, etc. How about you?

A group of people, business, and institutions exchanging/trading with each other using Bitcoin as money. This starts with a community that is self-sustaining and paying their employees in Bitcoin.

This said, this is jurisdictional-dependent. there will be places that will be open for business with Bitcoin.

Great question! I think so: as Bitcoin goes up Bitcoiners are richer and more likely to donate to projects doing good for the Bitcoin ecosystem!

Geyser is free to use if you connect your node.

Multiple pictures per item is coming this week! What else would you like to see?

Nice question!

Our main thesis of Lightning being the transactional layer of the creator economy still stands. We have not seen major adoption yet, but the infrastructure is developing and the broader wallet/bank adoption is taking place - albeit, slower than expected. We are bullish of Neobanks adopting lightning in the coming months/years and bringing hundreds of millions of users into the ecosystem.

The major positive surprise was the way Nostr came together bringing together socials and lightning in such a beautiful way. We expected that would happen, but not at this scale and rapidity.

What hasn't changed in any meaningful way, but this may/will change, is the degree of regulatory questions arising in lightning, especially with MiCA coming up in the next years.

It would definitely be K00b, if we had ever met him.

So many! Probably "Pools"

Pools are a bit like SN Territories, in that anyone can create a Pool and curate their favorite projects on Geyser and projects can apply to be part. This is a cool use case for organizing projects of similar types, and allowing the community to do so. This will help Bitcoin Film Fest, for example, to curate all their certified Bitcoin films or Mi Primer Bitcoin to verify all their NodeNetwork nodes.

Another big one is Credit Card payments. Imagine if you could pay a campaign with credit cards, and the funds are swapped over and sent to a user's lightning address!

Final one is Memberships, which can flip subscriptions on their head. Rather than asking for people to send funds on a monthly basis (who wants to do that, ugh) to get access to a community. Creators on Geyser could create membership plan based on how much each user had sent on Geyser. So they can create exclusive hidden content, give special discounts to those who enter those tiers.

Ok finally, since you ask, one more: Heroes. Heroes are users who are sharing a project and enabling transactions to happen. We use referral codes, so that any Geyser user sharing any project could become a hero. We then create a leaderboard tracking the top Heroes. No monetary benefit just pure signaling and recognition. After all, Heroes help Bitcoin Adoption happen faster! We lov'em!

Lot's to BUIDL.