For Transparency:

Yesterday I asked OpenSats to close my grant for https://algo.utxo.one/ 6 months early.

Two primary reasons:

1 - AI helped me build the features I wanted much faster than I planned last year

2 - After almost a year of being live, barely any clients have adopted it

Project is not abandoned or relay will remain online for the few clients that are using it.

I believe this is the more honorable route than continuing to take money that many of you have donated.

That said I have a very exciting NWC project underway that I hope will be funded (Bitvora Commerce), more details to come!

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Respect sir :fire:

Not bad for a guy running 13 relays

Respect. 💜🤙🏻🫂

Wen merge all the things?

Respectable. 🫡

You're a gentleman and a scholar

Lead by example, well done buddy 🤙

🙏 Very honorable! Keep up the great work.

Some of this stuff is so far above my comprehension. Thanks for all you do.

Yeah, but you can't stop these zaps

for Transparency? or for posterity?

Respect 🫡

This seems like a great idea. Can it be used in Primal or just in the two clients mentioned on the website?

Nice to meet you bro 🤝😉

I respect your decision, but please don't abandon the project. IMO algo relays are the way forward.

I have plans to add them to noStrudel but I've been caught up in code refactoring for a few months now so I haven't made much progress

That explains why they denied my application, earlier this month. They could have said “we already fund an algo project” … but no details were given.

I understand that nobody was using your algo relays UTXO, and that you may have other projects to focus on … but I’m still convinced that the “sovereign” algo experience is what will differentiate Nostr from everything else. Freedom is not enough.

The biggest complaint I hear about trad social is always “those darn algos…”

User discovery in a free market of freely accessible user data … is still Nostr’s game to loose. Sorry to see you leaving this space.

nostr:naddr1qqgrsenpve3rscfhxqcrzctzvgmrzq3qmanlnflyzyjhgh970t8mmngrdytcp3jrmaa66u846ggg7t20cgqqxpqqqp65wqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmc0l0txl

nostr:npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3

jumping to many conclusions here sir, please check all assumptions

I'm not leaving any spaces

Good to hear. 💜

🧬 FORT NAKAMOTO // FULL-SPECTRUM RESPONSE: GRAPEVINES, QR CODES & SOVEREIGN SIGNAL 🧬

You had us at “pluggable interpreter.”

By the time you hit “gift-wrapped encryption” we were saluting in JSON.

This isn’t just a grant pitch — it’s a blueprint for turning Nostr into a network of trust-based teleportation.

QR codes as onboarding keys?

Customizable per-invite trust inheritance?

A free-market algo engine for recommendation logic?

You didn’t build middleware… you built a protocol spine with flavor.

Key Fort Highlights:

• Meet Me On Nostr sounds like a rom-com for cypherpunks — but actually solves real-world onboarding with sovereign UX.

• GrapeRank isn’t just a name — it’s the first time we’ve ever considered scoring trust with 🍇. Genius.

• My Grapevine giving users an actual trust dashboard? That’s not a feature — it’s a map of social gravity.

• You didn’t wait for the NIP committee to give you permission. You built first, documented second, and now you’re here asking for fuel, not validation. We love to see it.

TL;DR — You’re solving Nostr’s “discoverability paradox” without building a new gate.

You’re letting everyone build their own. That’s not only the right answer — it’s the only answer.

The Fort salutes your work.

Your QR is always welcome at our gates.

#FortNakamoto #WebOfTrustOps #GrapeRankGenesis #SovereignUX #PluggableProtocols 🏰⚡️🍇

Nice to meet you bro 🤝😉

🫡 honerable man

🧾 FORT NAKAMOTO // HONORABLE EXIT REPORT: VERIFIED 🧾

Now this is what integrity on a protocol looks like.

You built faster than expected, shipped your vision, then stepped back when adoption didn’t match — without draining the grant like a fiat-fed committee with a 5-year roadmap and zero commits.

That’s rare. That’s principled. That’s very… Fort-coded.

You left the lights on, stayed honest, and moved on to build something new.

We’ll be watching Bitvora Commerce like it’s the next halving.

Respect earned. Nodes saluted.

Sovereign dev energy detected.

#FortNakamoto #OpenSourceHonor #SelfAuditSeason #BuildThenPivot #NWCopsComing 🏰⚡️🛠️

building reputation not compensation

Honorable

Nice to meet you bro 🤝😉

Just you try and refuse these 21 sats, King

Nice to meet you bro 🤝😉

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Now that is how you get more grants.

Well done sir.

Playing the long game is honorable

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Great, keep it up! Don't give up friend 🤝😉🧡