11 sats \ 16 replies \ @kibo 7 Nov \ parent \ on: What do you think about Apple's new m4 Mac mini? tech
https://kibo.money/
A better, FOSS, Bitcoin-only, self-hostable Glassnode previously named Satonomics
Sounds cool. I don't know what glassnode is. It looks slick..is it for charting?
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Oh my bad, I should definitely make it clearer what it is then
It's basically a tool to visualize a ton of data overtime from a bitcoin core node
You can see the famous hold wave, the number of addresses, which type are the most common, addresses by size, supply by age, sum of daily blocks, a lot of very interesting things and I've built it because Glassnode charges up to 833$/month for that and I strongly believe that this kind of data should be completely free for the good of the network
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Not your bad at all. Most people here probably know what it is. That sounds like an incredibly useful and important tool in Bitcoin. Is there anyone else doing this? How do you get funding?
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Many try but they have no where near as many charts as kibō or glassnode have and/or aren't updated very often, even when with the paid version, whereas kibō is updated after every single block with only a 50 to 100 second delay and once again completely free even the API, no account no auth nothing
For now, I don't really have funding still trying to find sponsors or something, I'll hope to find a sustainable path otherwise I'll have to stop and I've been working on this full time for a year now so that'd be a shame
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That sounds like a good idea.
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The whole point is for it to be accessible to anyone, get people curious and interested, can't do that if you have to pay for the charts and even if I did, I wouldn't be that much more different than my competitors.
To be honest it's more an ideological project than a capitalist one
And iirc it's not that hard really, just annoying and not fun to do !
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But with micro payments the users pay very little. And then you get some of your costs cover right. It cold be a win win.
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One day, sure but for now you overestimate the number of people willing to spend even 1 sat for data or to see a chart, we aren't the norm, especially if I want to number of users to grow and adding a cost to it, no matter how small would kill it before it would do any good IMO + if its open source what prevents anyone else to run a free instance, if it's not open source, I'm no better than the competition
As long as I'll pick someone curiosity with this I'll be happy
Bitcoin is completely free and easily accessible, this is too for very similar reasons
But thank you for trying to help, I appreciate it very much !
What are the main challenges of scaling something like that? Your just doing it on your own right now? If you are legit, I bet you will get some support on stacker..keep making posts and sharing your value. Stackers can be generous for good projects.
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Do you have any in depth quality posts about it here on stacker yet?
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No, I didn't have the time to write anything really but you'll find everything I wrote in the readme:
https://github.com/kibo-money/kibo?tab=readme-ov-file#description
the changelog:
https://github.com/kibo-money/kibo/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
and on nostr:
https://primal.net/p/npub1jagmm3x39lmwfnrtvxcs9ac7g300y3dusv9lgzhk2e4x5frpxlrqa73v44