We are in a Cambrian explosion of clients and relays. Will is the most prominent of many client developers and he most certainly knows what he's doing. Jack is throwing money at products. Even my client implementation that laid dormant for half a year is getting revived. It's ok to ask for more donations but Will is not the only savior here.

1. As there are so many clients and so little lock-in to one client or the other, there is hardly a case for a subscription model for clients. Supplementary features maybe. nip05, badges, fast relay access, ... but not clients. Sadly. My client has the same problem.

2. In Bitcoin, only mining is a natural business model. Still there are thousands of Bitcoin wallets many of which with no obvious business model. And tons of open source, financed via grants and donations or simply maintained by professionals in the free time.

3. VCs ...?

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