Derek Ross's avatar
Derek Ross derekross@grownostr.org 1 year ago
most people don't donate their time and efforts for free, for extended periods of time. everything in this world has a cost. developers and infrastructure operators of nostr are no different here. zap the devs and congratulate them when they receive funding too. when they succeed, we succeed.

Replies (34)

NEW1's avatar
NEW1 new1@hivetalk.org 1 year ago
this and bitcoin are the 2 things i need to succeed. ive tried too many other things that didnt 😂 😂 😂
Diacone Frost's avatar
Diacone Frost diacone@anarcho.capital 1 year ago
If the ordinary pleb has a choice to pay or not to pay it would be strange to choose to pay. I'm quite sure that some will earn pile of sats on nostr. They invest and speculate. Basing their existence on moral doesn't seem like a viable approach. if it make any sense ...
Default avatar
npub1dmsg...4ux8 1 year ago
So how does Nostr keep running for decades to come without a meaningful revenue source? V4V is nice, but it's yet to be proven to provide meaningful liquidity to support large infrastructure
1 replies ↓
Default avatar
npub1gmr6...e7cw 1 year ago
What is free? There is no free because time is an opportunity cost. If one can leverage their time to their advantage then it might benefit them to do it for free.
Dawn's avatar
Dawn dawn@spatia-arcana.com 1 year ago
Remember when a dev would post pictures of being out having dinner or drinks & everyone would zap it? I would love to see something like that revived. Those kind of actions make it clear to observers (aka newbs) that this is, currently, a mostly volunteer & motive driven movement... and it shows the people volunteering their time & talent that their efforts are appreciated. Whether working towards a sellable product, a donation funded free-to-use product, or building something that others can utilize with no expectation, it's still early. The better everything works, the easier it is to forget that.
1 replies ↓
Default avatar
npub1axh8...kd4p 1 year ago
Real decentralization like #bitcoin don’t need tips or any stuff besides it’s own economic incentives to get miners and node operators working. #Ethereum guys seems to have got this from the start but #nostr still not. Implements real decentralization on #nostr and people will get involved in order to create value.
2 replies ↓
QW's avatar
QW QW@npub.bar 1 year ago
#Devlist Pablo @PABLOF7z Cameri @Cameri🐦‍🔥 Mike Dilger @Mike Dilger ☑️ Will @jb55 Fiat Jaf @fiatjaf Kieran @Kieran Calle @calle Vitor @Vitor Pamplona Hodlbod @hodlbod Koala Sat @KoalaSat Martti Malmi @Sirius Henry @npub1xv6a...xea6 Ben @ben Rock @Rock Roberto @Roberto Iefan @iefan 🕊️ Semisol @semisol RooSoft @RooSoft Vivek @Vivek Brugeman @brugeman Miljan @miljan Zach Meyers @Zach Nostr Build @nostr.build Terry Yu @Terry Yiu Rockstar @UNCLE ROCKSTAR Rabble @rabble Matt Lorentz @Matt Lorentz Vivek @Vivek Stuart Bowman @Stuart Bowman Fishcake @The Fishcake (nostr.build) Jeff G @JeffG Karnage @HoloKat Tijl @Tijl Santos @npub1kkum...gewf Dread @npub1u0uc...rrgt hzrd149 @hzrd149 Super Testnet @Super Testnet
5 replies ↓
Derek Ross's avatar
Derek Ross derekross@grownostr.org 1 year ago
Economies of scale. We need to hit a certain number of users. I don't know what that number is, but at some point we're going to reach a number of users where different revenue models are sustainable. We aren't there yet.
1 replies ↓
Default avatar
nobody 1 year ago
a wonderful list already was following everyone i meant to except 3 & now that is remedied thank you @QW 🫂
Sheilfer's avatar
Sheilfer sheilfer@primal.net 1 year ago
This is true. I’ve recently had to depart from a community as an activist. I spend time here to be exposed to more skilled people and to draw influence from it in the meantime. I’ve learned a lot about cryptography and software engineering here and I’m happy to see people succeed and provide technical opportunities for folks like me to learn from.
Default avatar
npub1axh8...kd4p 1 year ago
Same idea of #nostr just different coins. Ethereum has its benevolent dictator Vitalik. Nostr has its benevolent dictator jack. Still Vitalik is not battle tested while jack had been tested at Twitter.
↑