Hey Arkinox, I appreciate your response here. My point is that even though you sacrificed hours at your job you didn’t actually commit a meaningful amount of hours to your project until you received the grant. Many developers in the space have full time jobs and commit resources (time and money) prior to receiving grants if any. Most grant recipients already have a project in the production stage where your project was still in the idea / prototyping stage. 

It’s no secret that I’m against the metaverse. But maybe I’m wrong. Can you tell me what the opportunity is here? What’s the best possible outcome for your project? How does Bitcoin and Nostr benefit? To be frank it seems that your project falls short of the opensats mission statement -

“Help us to provide sustainable funding for free and open-source contributors working on freedom tech and projects that help bitcoin flourish.”

The metaverse is literally the matrix, it’s “the anti-bitcoin”. The opposite of touch grass. Not to mention 10s of billions of dollars have been spent on trying to build these metaverses in which all of them failed. 

I get the feeling that a lot of Nostr devs think they deserve to get paid just because they put in work. And Opensats is over here giving out participation trophies to their close buddies even if the project is out of scope. How many other opensats projects were funded solely on an idea/ MVP?