By Bitcoin Tydskrif - 7 maande gelede - Leestyd: 4 minute
Nostr.com: Verkoop dit nie aan Shitcoiners nie
Shitcoiners have fat bags, really fat bags, really, really fat bags. Two weeks ago I put nostr.com up for sale to see what responses I would get back. I imagined Roger Ver offering to sell bitcoin dot com in 2013, and what would have happened if another player had bought it. I had a few groups of shitcoiners offer to buy the domain (prob to do some Nostr ICO), but yeah, that wont happen.
My Geskiedenis Met Nostr
Byna 3 jaar gelede het ek die eerste twitter-kloon op Nostr gemaak en die Nostr-telegramgroep begin afluister om nostr.com te koop. Na 'n paar weke se gesukkel het ek die kol gebyt, amper 1 miljard verkoop en die domein beveilig. Die domein het 'n paar jaar lank gesmeer met 'n swak vervaardigde plonsbladsy vir Nostr-projekte.
Aan die begin van hierdie jaar, met al die welverdiende aandag wat Nostr begin trek het, was dit duidelik dat ons 'n beter splash page nodig het. Ons het die uitstekende webwerf aangebied wat vir nostr.how deur jeffg op die webwerf geskep is. Om van die domein gebruik te maak, het Fiatjaf volle heerskappy gekry om groot nostr-projekte op subdomeine van nostr.com aan te bied (dankie vir daardie Fiatjaf). Aangesien dit die mees besoekte webwerf vir Nostr is, is dit duidelik 'n baie belangrike poort vir die clearnet-mense.
LNbits, Nostr en Covid
Those Covid years were a productive period, as well as the creation of Nostr, a few of us, such as Fiatjaf, Eneko and myself created LNbits, an extension based lightning wallet accounts system, which would make it easy to showcase cutting edge bitcoin functionality. While Nostr was bubbling away and great contributors started building clients that actually worked, I focused all my attention on LNbits. Although not having time to develop on Nostr, I shilled the protocol as much as possible, talking about it in popular bitcoin podcasts and doing the first Nostr talk at HCCP in 2021.
Ons het vanaf 2022 'n paar Nostr LNbits-uitbreidings in die pyplyn gehad, soos 'n maklike een-klik-aflos, uitbreiding vir die verkoop van NIP05-adresse, die Nostr-mark-uitbreiding (sy voorganger Diagon Alley, wat een van die invloede op die skepping van die Nostr-protokol was. ), en 'n Nostr-kliënt-uitbreiding wat altyd aan is wat aflos kan vermenigvuldig en notas na verskillende uitbreidings in LNbits kan rig (nodig vir Nostr-mark sodat die handelaar fakture kan genereer sonder dat hul kliënt "aanlyn" is).
LNbits was always a hobby project. but as the project evolved and was being used in the wild (even by a bank) it made sense to push hard to get the project out of beta. It was also weird that we were creating a useful accounting tool but not using it in a business context ourselves. With the blessing of the community, LNbits core devs created LNbits Inc, a for-profit arm that would help develop LNbits and provide some useful services, such as a one click launch LNbits software as a service (similar to launching WordPress on wordpress.com), a shop for selling all our DIY bitcoin hardware/swag, and a support service for people wanting to implement LNbits in their stack. We were given a pre-seed by the excellent Max Webster from Hivemind Ventures, which meant 6 of us could work on LNbits full time for a year, to create the services and push to get LNbits out of beta.
Nostrenaissance
All the Nostrcentric LNbits extensions were given momentum with the Nostrenaissance of early 2023, and we were able to get them ready(ish) to unveil at Nostrica, as well as a hardware Nostr signing device created by Myself, Vlad Stan, Fiatjaf and Stephan Snigrev.
Dit het sin gemaak vir die ontwikkeling van ons Nostr-uitbreidings dat ons dit gebruik het om sekere dienste op nostr.com aan te bied, soortgelyk aan wat ons met LNbits Inc gedoen het, so ek het beplan om LNbits Inc die reg te gee om die domein te bestuur oor die volgende 3 jaar, om die bruikbaarheid daarvan te maksimeer deur aflosdienste, NIP05-name aan te bied en selfdoen-Nostr-ondertekeningtoestelle te verkoop.
Before LNbits Inc seed round, and “officially” passing the rights to the company, I decided to float the domain on the market see if there was someone out there willing to buy the domain. Within the first few days some folks reached out, but after some superficial digging it was clear their intentions might not be honourable. I have worked tirelessly for six years on free and open-source bitcoin software and hardware. All the engineers I have worked with during that period are here for bitcoin’s/Nostr potentiality to create greater liberty and freedom. Nostr WILL change our world for the better, and although I believe nostr.com can be made more useful, it is imperative nostr.com can not/will not ever fall into corrupt hands. Having a team managing the domain will help that not happen. I am happy to hand control over to LNbits Inc, and am extremely excited to see more wonderful tools/applications being delivered through it.
Also check out the excellent Nostr-market update.
Pura Vida. Start wearing purple.
This is a guest post by Ben Arc. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.
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