By Bitcoin Cylchgrawn - 7 fis yn ôl - Amser Darllen: 4 munud
Nostr.com: Ddim yn Ei Werthu I Shitcoiners
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.
Fy Hanes Gyda Nostr
Bron i 3 blynedd yn ôl fe wnes i'r clôn trydar cyntaf ar Nostr, a dechrau bygio grŵp telegram Nostr i brynu nostr.com. Ar ôl ychydig wythnosau o fygio nes i frathu'r fwled, gwerthu bron i 1btc a sicrhau'r parth. Bu'r parth yn crynhoi am rai blynyddoedd gyda thudalen sblash wedi'i gwneud yn wael ar gyfer prosiectau Nostr.
Ar ddechrau'r flwyddyn hon, gyda'r holl sylw haeddiannol y dechreuodd Nostr ei gasglu, roedd yn amlwg bod angen gwell tudalen sblash. Fe wnaethom gynnal y safle ardderchog a grëwyd ar gyfer nostr.how gan jeffg ar y safle. I wneud defnydd o'r parth, rhoddwyd teyrnasiad llawn i Fiatjaf i gynnal prosiectau nostr gwych ar is-barthau nostr.com (diolch am y Fiatjaf hwnnw). Gan mai hwn yw'r safle yr ymwelir ag ef fwyaf ar gyfer Nostr, mae'n amlwg yn borth pwysig iawn i bobl glirio.
LNbits, Nostr a 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 podlediadau and doing the first Nostr talk at HCCP in 2021.
Roedd gennym ychydig o estyniadau Nostr LNbits ar y gweill o 2022, megis ras gyfnewid un clic hawdd, estyniad ar gyfer gwerthu cyfeiriadau NIP05, estyniad marchnad Nostr (ei ragflaenydd Diagon Alley, sef un o'r dylanwadau ar greu protocol Nostr ), ac estyniad cleient Nostr bob amser a allai amlblecsu trosglwyddiadau cyfnewid a chyfeirio nodiadau at wahanol estyniadau mewn LNbits (sydd eu hangen ar gyfer marchnad Nostr fel y gall y masnachwr gynhyrchu anfonebau heb i'w cleient fod "ar-lein").
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.
Roedd yn gwneud synnwyr i ddatblygiad ein estyniadau Nostr ein bod yn eu defnyddio i gynnig rhai gwasanaethau ar nostr.com, yn debyg i'r hyn yr ydym wedi'i wneud gyda LNbits Inc, felly roeddwn yn bwriadu rhoi'r hawl i LNbits Inc reoli'r parth dros y 3 nesaf blynyddoedd, i wneud y mwyaf o'i ddefnyddioldeb, trwy gynnig gwasanaethau cyfnewid, enwau NIP05, a gwerthu dyfeisiau llofnodi DIY Nostr.
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 Cylchgrawn.
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