Apparently Solana people were interested in buying nostr.com for $5M. nostr:nprofile1qqsvrlrhw86l5sv06wkyjgs6rrcekskvk7nx8k50qn9m7mqgeqxjpvgpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0tc48yt didn't sell it to Shitcoiners. Respect.
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Ben confirmed it on our show some time ago. Ben is a man of culture š„š„š„
Noice! He's reconfirming it again right now on Nostr Nests.
Imagine having that much money just for a domain, I could use that to pay all of my current contributors for a few yearsā¦ instead I am just losing contributors slowly due to lack of funding and denied grants. Sigh.
Sorry brother. I have faith though.
Much better days will come pal. Keep pushing!
I still find it incredible there are grants at all for nostr. very non-standard for oss.
though itās a shame theyāre going to dime a dozen, proof of concept webapps. your work tends to focus on the harder problems and I appreciate that.
best of luck on your journey.
yeah i was going to do VC before grants, starting to look like I may still have to since you canāt build a proper team on grants.
look outside the bitcoin space for VCs.
unless you want to be bought out by the same people that sell insecure and overpriced gimmick HWWs and use podcasts/influencers to exploit bitcoiners
and the people that made primal, which is falling apart on a technical level as they struggle to scale (they had to last-minute change to PostgreSQL, for example)
Thank you for calling this out. There are definitely 2 tiers of Bitcoin VC, and then thereās real VC. Avoid the Bitcoin podcasting thinkboisāterrible.
Real VCs back good ideas & business models, and they donāt force shitcoins on you. Thatās a myth. Crypto VCs do that and only a fool approaches them.
Respect for not selling, I donāt think that domain is worth anywhere near that honestly, but could be one day.
you dont get funding?
that surprises me!
but i also wouldnt sell it to shitcoiners
I personally do but damus has multiple apps now built by many people who donāt get paid. I would like to raise money so they can keep working. Iāve had many people come, do great work, and leave. The churn kills momentum.
What kind of grants do you look at/look for?
Trying to think creatively, how would #nostr be valuable for a public entity with funds, setting up an open access networkš¤
I'm guessing he didn't sell it because 5M is a joke.
Ben is a reasonable guy and has a backbone. When its wrong, its wrong and he won't go there. I can't say the same about many many other people in the space. That's why I'll always contribute to LNBits whenever I can in my spare but limited time.
Solana? more like shitlana š©
But what did they want it for?
Iām confusedā¦
Should have sold it to fund devs and just bought it back next year for 1/10th of the price... Short sighted out of ideology.
