119 sats \ 1 reply \ @pavlenex 22 Mar \ parent \ on: Phoenix for servers lightning
That's a great idea! They should make a plugin for BTCPay.
More help testing, more people asking questions, more companies willing to support contributors financially.
Tough one, I think if miners pressured pools, they'd be more likely to adopt it. We have interests from a few pools already, so reaching half of the network can take 2-3 years in my rough estimate.
Why did the blog post yesterday have a future date? 😂
Man, we wanted so badly to release on 3/21 - 3 2 1 that I got so excited and messed it up, it's been fixed now - thank you!
I had the most amazing meal in our teammate's (Fi3) family owned restaurant in Florence last year, it was the first time some of us met in person.
I didn't order anything ,FI3 just keept ordering food until I passed out, here's one photo.
Photo of me under the table available on request.
As someone who hasn't done any "mining" projects before doing SRI, I realized mining space is way more competitive than I imagined. Getting two companies to agree on something is extremely hard, and even us, as FOSS struggle communicating things to companies.
how was your experience asking for grants and donations?
One thing that's great since project's inception is that we're all funded by different entities. Thus far we had: Spiral, HRF, OpenSats, Foundry, Bitmex, Galaxy. Some of the entities even allowed their employees to work on SRI.
It's tough, but back when I started doing FOSS Bitcoin 7 years ago, situation is much better. There are now so many entities that recognize good and valuable work. I would say that each and every one of us first added some proof of work, before applying for a grant.
Situation can always be better, as someone handling this side of the things for contributors of SRI, one thing that could be better is mullti-year support so that contributors don't have to worry every 6-months or 12-months if their grants will be renewed,
were there any important lessons you learned that might be useful for other FOSS builders looking for grants to support their work?
- Put in proof of work, even if it's in spare time and ensure community recognizes the value you're adding
- When writing application always ask core contribution team to validate your ideas or areas you can be useful for the project
- We need multi-year grants in this space asap, dealing with sustainability insecurities and constant renewals takes a toll on people.
Haha, if I got satoshi every time someone asked WEN SV2... Exactly, it's now a reality, ready for implementation and direct usage. We've mined over 600 blocks on testnet internally and are pretty confident it's great first start. Of course as people start using the software, we expect improvements, bugs and updates.
Thank you for notifying me through a common friend on Telegram, as soon as I was aware of Hugo's problem, I've reached out to him to connect us.
So you're fabricating a story where we (BTCPay community) ignored you (we didn't) just because we didn't immediately start a crowdfunding for you instead of patching a bug and ensuring others don't get impacted on a Friday evening, evil people we are. I'l let know the entire team of 8 people maintaining payment infrastructure for entire bitcoin, to immediately start one.
Did you ask how Dennis was? Has he slept? Have I slept? Do you really think we're not impacted by this equality ,even though I can be jackass and pin-point several things you could've done to mitigate a hot wallet attack better?
Listen, I understand your frustration and pain, I emphatize, but you attacking us for your pain instead of the hacker is probably not fair direction to go into, especially because I really believe we've done everything we could to help you.