By Bitcoin Tímarit - fyrir 7 mánuðum - Lestur: 4 mínútur
Nostr.com: Selur það ekki til 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.
Saga mín með Nostr
Fyrir tæpum 3 árum síðan bjó ég til fyrsta twitter klóninn á Nostr og byrjaði að bögga Nostr símskeytahópinn til að kaupa nostr.com. Eftir nokkurra vikna röskun beit ég á jaxlinn, seldi næstum 1btc og tryggði mér lénið. Lénið var í nokkur ár með illa gerðri skvettusíðu fyrir Nostr verkefni.
Í byrjun þessa árs, með allri verðskulduðu athyglinni sem Nostr byrjaði að fá, var ljóst að við þurftum betri sprettisíðu. Við hýstum frábæra síðu sem var búin til fyrir nostr.how af jeffg á síðunni. Til að nýta sér lénið fékk Fiatjaf fullt vald til að hýsa frábær nostr verkefni á undirlénum nostr.com (takk fyrir það Fiatjaf). Þar sem hún er mest heimsótta síða Nostr, er það greinilega mjög mikilvæg hlið fyrir clearnet fólkið.
LNbits, Nostr og 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 podcast and doing the first Nostr talk at HCCP in 2021.
Við vorum með nokkrar Nostr LNbits viðbætur í pípunum frá 2022, svo sem einfalt gengi með einum smelli, viðbót til að selja NIP05 vistföng, Nostr-markaðsframlenginguna (forveri hennar Diagon Alley, sem er einn af áhrifavaldunum á stofnun Nostr samskiptareglunnar ), og alltaf á Nostr-viðskiptavinaviðbót sem gæti margfaldað gengi og beint athugasemdum í mismunandi viðbætur í LNbits (þarf fyrir Nostr-markaðinn svo að kaupmaðurinn geti búið til reikninga án þess að viðskiptavinur þeirra sé „á netinu“).
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.
Það var skynsamlegt fyrir þróun Nostr viðbótanna okkar að við notuðum þær til að bjóða upp á einhverja þjónustu á nostr.com, svipað og við höfðum gert með LNbits Inc, svo ég ætlaði að gefa LNbits Inc rétt til að stjórna léninu á næstu 3. ár, til að hámarka notagildi þess, með því að bjóða upp á boðþjónustu, NIP05 nöfn og selja DIY Nostr undirritunartæki.
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 Tímarit.
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