Bitvora didn't spam my relays, didn't try to bribe devs, or steal money from new Nostr users. Nobody ever complained to me that they received their very first SATS on a Bitvora wallet and them were told that they can't use it for anything other than paying for a "self-custodial" wallet subscription. Bitvora didn’t drive new Nostr users (and often new to BTC as well) away thinking that the whole thing is a huge crypto scam.

I've seen you honour your commitments to your clients and invest countless hours and resources into building and hosting FOSS tech that has moved the state of Nostr forward, while humbly giving all credit upstream and dealing with all criticism that come your way fairly. So, for all that this eternal Nostr outsider opinion is worth, I salute you.

And I'm sure you will still be building great things long after all the current VC money and grants currently moving Nostr dry up.

About the source, aye, not much of a mystery. To be fair, they used an alt, likely to avoid screenshots leaking. But relatively easy to recognise. I'm not saying this to out anyone either, just sharing it publicly because I don't give a flying rat's arse anymore. Other than my own disappointment with some folks, no harm done.

About immigrants, agreed. But the obsession with a few bad apples and refugees on dinghies, while enthusiastically supporting the very system that is sending Western civilisation down the toilet, makes me sad. It goes beyond shallowness. It's just the same old agenda of weaponised hate to distract people from the mess that a bunch of entitled octogenarians and a few sociopathic billionaires are making so that they can leech for just a little longer.