Yep $3 Million is literally nothing compared to most shitcoin defi and not projects on ETH lol. I think Stacks received over $150 million in 2021 from just VCs.

Nostr and Lightning folks apparently built these protocols with zero funding from VCs lol.

We could talk about how Saylor has way more influence over bitcoin than anyone else as he owns 1% of the bitcoins in existence and runs the bitcoin mining council which pushes the ESG narrative for big corporate miners who’s shareholders are blackrock.