Shitcoiners have fats luggage, actually fats luggage, actually, actually fats luggage. Two weeks in the past I put nostr.com up on the market to see what responses I might get again. I imagined Roger Ver providing to promote bitcoin dot com in 2013, and what would have occurred if one other participant had purchased it. I had a couple of teams of shitcoiners supply to purchase the area (prob to do some Nostr ICO), however yeah, that wont occur.
My Historical past With Nostr
Virtually 3 years in the past I made the primary twitter clone on Nostr, and began bugging the Nostr telegram group to purchase nostr.com. After a couple of weeks of bugging I bit the bullet, offered virtually 1btc and secured the area. The area festered for a couple of years with a poorly made splash web page for Nostr initiatives.
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At the start of this 12 months, with all of the a lot deserved consideration Nostr began to garner, it was clear we wanted a greater splash web page. We hosted the superb web site created for nostr.how by jeffg on the location. To utilize the area, Fiatjaf was given full reign to host nice nostr initiatives on subdomains of nostr.com (thanks for that Fiatjaf). Being essentially the most visited web site for Nostr, it’s clearly an important gateway for the clearnet people.
LNbits, Nostr and Covid
These Covid years have been a productive interval, in addition to the creation of Nostr, a couple of of us, resembling Fiatjaf, Eneko and myself created LNbits, an extension based mostly lightning pockets accounts system, which might make it straightforward to showcase leading edge bitcoin performance. Whereas Nostr was effervescent away and nice contributors began constructing purchasers that truly labored, I centered all my consideration on LNbits. Though not having time to develop on Nostr, I shilled the protocol as a lot as doable, speaking about it in in style bitcoin podcasts and doing the primary Nostr speak at HCCP in 2021.
We had a couple of Nostr LNbits extensions within the pipeline from 2022, resembling a straightforward one click on relay, extension for promoting NIP05 addresses, the Nostr-market extension (its predecessor Diagon Alley, being one of many influences to the creation to the Nostr protocol), and an all the time on Nostr-client extension that would multiplex relays and direct notes to totally different extensions in LNbits (wanted for Nostr-market so the service provider can generate invoices with out their consumer being “on-line”).
LNbits was all the time a interest venture. however because the venture developed and was getting used within the wild (even by a financial institution) it made sense to push arduous to get the venture out of beta. It was additionally bizarre that we have been making a helpful accounting software however not utilizing it in a enterprise context ourselves. With the blessing of the group, LNbits core devs created LNbits Inc, a for-profit arm that may assist develop LNbits and supply some helpful providers, resembling a one click on launch LNbits software program as a service (just like launching WordPress on wordpress.com), a store for promoting all our DIY bitcoin {hardware}/swag, and a assist service for folks eager to implement LNbits of their stack. We got a pre-seed by the superb Max Webster from Hivemind Ventures, which meant 6 of us may work on LNbits full time for a 12 months, to create the providers and push to get LNbits out of beta.
Nostrenaissance
All of the Nostrcentric LNbits extensions got momentum with the Nostrenaissance of early 2023, and we have been capable of get them prepared(ish) to unveil at Nostrica, in addition to a {hardware} Nostr signing machine created by Myself, Vlad Stan, Fiatjaf and Stephan Snigrev.
It made sense to the event of our Nostr extensions that we used them to supply some providers on nostr.com, just like what we had finished with LNbits Inc, so I deliberate to offer LNbits Inc the suitable to handle the area over the following 3 years, to maximise its usefulness, by providing relay providers, NIP05 names, and promoting DIY Nostr signing gadgets.
Earlier than LNbits Inc seed spherical, and “formally” passing the rights to the corporate, I made a decision to drift the area in the marketplace see if there was somebody on the market keen to purchase the area. Inside the first few days some people reached out, however after some superficial digging it was clear their intentions won’t be honourable. I’ve labored tirelessly for six years on free and open-source bitcoin software program and {hardware}. All of the engineers I’ve labored with throughout that interval are right here for bitcoin’s/Nostr potentiality to create better liberty and freedom. Nostr WILL change our world for the higher, and though I imagine nostr.com could be made extra helpful, it’s crucial nostr.com can’t/is not going to ever fall into corrupt fingers. Having a workforce managing the area will assist that not occur. I’m completely happy handy management over to LNbits Inc, and am extraordinarily excited to see extra fantastic instruments/purposes being delivered via it.
Additionally try the superb Nostr-market replace.
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It is a visitor submit by Ben Arc. Opinions expressed are completely their very own and don’t essentially replicate these of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Journal.