I just went through all 80+ applications for Round 2 of Geyser Grants.

In case you don’t know, we started Geyser Grants as a way to support people contributing to Bitcoin culture.

We were bootstrapped by an anonymous Bitcoiner to run 3 rounds grants to see if we could encourage the Bitcoin community and other anonymous Bitcoiners & Bitcoin companies to contribute to funding a community curated list of bitcoin projects.

We focus not just on builders, but also creators and educators!

We have lots of great initiatives to fund bitcoin development and open source including Brink Bitcoin, Open Sats, HRF Bitcoin Dev Fund, chain code, btrust, Bitmex developer grants, okcoin developer grants, spiral bitcoin grants and more 🔥🔥🔥

However, artists, translators, podcasters, comedians, designers, musicians and educators also need support.

Artists contribute to bitcoin culture and educators are fighting in the trenches against shitcoin disinformation, doing Satoshi’s work across the globe.

It’s our goal to unlock dormant pools of BTC from whales who are willing to pay their Bitcoin tithing to support high impact bitcoin evangelism and bitcoin culture projects.

Many early Bitcoiners just don’t have the time or energy to vet all of these projects that need funding - it’s a lot of work!

We built a voluntary advisory board of principled bitcoiner who go through the applicants and vote on a curated list.

We went through 80+ in the summer and just finished going through another 80+ for round 2.

As we continue round after round - we hope to prove to the bitcoin whales out there that we are curating a great list of projects contributing to Bitcoin adoption globally.

The total requested for Round 2 was ~$260K, which is not a lot.

It’s my hope that after a few more rounds, we will be able to fulfill all requests that meet our bar for support.

This is a ground-up community effort done in the spirit of bitcoin, eventually the Geyser team will build something that is community driven where we can optimize bitcoin donations to help boost the highest impact projects spreading bitcoin across the globe.

Proud of the geyser team and Geyser grants board, and very excited to see so many grassroots bitcoin projects across the world 🫂

Excited for 2025 🤙

I need to follow more plebs here, who should I follow?

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Thank you to whomever just zapped ⚡️ me 888 sats!

Gonna spread it out to the first 8 #Nostriches who post 111-sat invoices here 🎉

Broadcast networks don't scale. Sharding and caching solves it.

And thanks for taking time to write all this up. 🤙

Sounds promising

Amethyst is laggy and has problems. I use iris on android and snort for zapping. Iris is silky smooth

Can’t zap on Damus yet but sent you some sats via your lightning link ⚡️🧡

Thanks a lot 🙏🏻

If I understand this correctly Amethyst is downloading *all* notes of people you are following and notes that those people interacted with? The search function is only client side among the data you downloaded to your local cache?

Client side caching of all notes you could possibly read is unsustainable.

Thanks for this writeup! Still trying to learn up on AT protocol and DID. Although I think on “who’s the winner?” part, the answer is protocol-based social media platforms! Kinda mind blowing that we are talking abt 2 platforms and multiple social media clients now when just 2 mths ago we were fully controlled by centralised comms platforms !

Amethyst 0.16.2 seems almost unusable now. I turned off Global and Community on all relays to prevent crash during startup. The main problem now is tapping any note to read replies under it gets stuck forever at this "Loading feed" screen. Navigating or writing notes gets slow and crashes.

I wonder if client side filtering is sustainable for the future of mobile Nostr. It downloads far too much for mobile data to be sustainable, and the app seems to strain dealing with too many notes.

I could reduce the data transfer requirements with a personal proxy that offloads the multi-relay sync to my home server. But that approach isn't really usable for the average social media end-user.

There seem to be architectural challenges for mobile Nostr to become usable and sustainable.

Let's play another mining game. 🎲 ⚡

Rules:

💎 I am thinking of a number between 0 - 200

💎To play, you have to ZAP me your guess between 0 - 200

💎The first correct guess wins the block reward of 10,000 SATS. ⚡ ⚡⚡

Agreed, I'm just not assuming the legacy platforms are a reliable source for the data to go, hence still needing a nostr type route.

Wow thanks!! Much appreciated! Zapped 🤙💜⚡️