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Once I asked on Stacker News what people thought about the concept of making some sort of line of NFT showing that you supported an open source bitcoin/lightning project. And people could show them off in their wallet, a NFT for 'splicing,' one for 'teleports' and one for 'mult-path payments.'

They compared it to selling drugs for charity.

While I think that's a bit of a stretch, I agree, it didn't feel right.

I am watching the Nostrica livestream and Will (Casarin, the Damus dev) suggested selling Nostr badges to support Damus development.

Nostr Badges might be the missing piece. It shows the owner is the one that did the donating, this motivates to give. The badge cannot be resold for profit, unlike NFTs, soiling the honest ideals of the mission.

What do you think about Nostr badges for supporting open source projects?

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Shawn 2y ago

It seems to work well for GitHub. Makes sense that it would carry over.

Timechain 2y ago

Yeah, it's... it might be something the Bitcoin community is okay with. We'll see. I hope so.

BTW, if I were to transfer my nip05 to another set of keys, I lose all my badges, right?

Shawn 2y ago

As the badges are tied to your npub, yes. Unless and until key rotation becomes a thing.

7fqx 2y ago

Is there a way or any plans to toggle Show #Badges to Off? Makes the amethyst app slow tf down and I don't care about them¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Also do you have to ok badges if I were to be ever given one, or are they forced?

Timechain 2y ago

You can at any time, even after accepting them, hide them at the badge site. As for slowing it down, I don't think it actually causes the rest of the app to load slower, even if a few badges load particularly slowly; the individual images for the badges are hosted on a specific relay. And sometimes the relay that happened to accept that badge image is now super slow.

Badges.page is the site url.

7fqx 2y ago

Nice, thanks. Good to know they're not forced. Not that I'm in any danger of getting one;)

Timechain 2y ago

Oooo yeah, didn't even think of that. Imagine using an obscene image as the image for a badge and sending to a few hundred people. And they are all stuck with some messed up porn in their profile.

Actually I think someone tried this, because Vitor (Amethyst dev) made a post saying 'yes, I can flag and report badges too, fyi.'

7fqx 2y ago

There's that too lol. I personally would still like to toggle off to even seeing them on profiles, just as an aesthetic choice lol

Mdegen 2y ago

LOL if is weed or shrooms i would buy it for charity