Oddbean

Totally agree. The Opensats board wanted a nice spreadsheet. Not a client that Nostr users would like to use. So a lot of clients that nobody uses and hasn't even heard of are getting funded. They're not exchanging bitcoin value for value. They're just using bitcoin to fund a lot of nice spreadsheets on GitHub. jack, they're turning your bitcoin donations into scrap paper.

Value is always subjective. The open sats board have proclaimed that they value changes to GitHub repos. Therefore it is reasonable to give them green squares. Once they get a flood of synthetic green squares, they might change their metric. Lines of code? Issues closed? Releases pushed? Whatever they want we can create in arbitrary quantity. Measuring green squares is a convenience. But once it becomes a target, it creases to be a good measurement.

I’m pretty sure the board is made up for volunteers who independently evaluate a project. It’s not like they gather in a room and make decisions together. It’s a bit unfair to say “the board wanted” when it’s just people who look at things on their own time.

The work of OpenSats volunteers is great. I'm not sure if jack donated special operating funds to provide salaries to volunteers. But they can't make decisions based on a piece of statistical waste paper just because they are volunteers. They have a great responsibility. They are responsible for the allocation of funding for the entire decentralized Nostr global developers. This is the value of Jack's establishment of Opensats. I saw some early Nostr developers who have been quietly developing infrastructure to contribute to Nostr. But many of them were rejected when they applied for funding. There was no reason. We all came here because we believed in Jack. I once asked Jack if he would still support Nostr if Nostr could not develop within 5 years? Jack said "Yes". So we have been working hard to make good products. We all believe that the combination of Nostr and Bitcoin is the future. But now the proof of work of our builders has been defeated by a beautiful piece of waste paper. And refused funding. Isn't this ridiculous? Since Opensats has discovered the problem, it should face the solution. Instead of whitewashing it. If Opensats is short of staff, it should raise more operating funds to recruit volunteers. It can't be said that a few volunteers can manage tens of millions of dollars for free. This is not in line with business rules, and money should not be used to test human nature. Funding applications now take several months, which seriously affects Nostr's development. If this continues, many real developers will leave. In the end, only some GitHub projects that can make statistical tables but no one uses them will be left.

Not sure why a GitHub repo would be considered statistical waste paper… if I were screening hundreds of applications without deep knowledge of what each one is about, a code repository would be a good indicator of activity or inactivity on a project. Maybe not the only heuristic to measure by but certainly not something to disregard.

Agreed. But now it's the only thing that matters. If the developer client hasn't even been tested, a GitHub statistics table will negate the proof of work. For projects that have no users, they can make a lot of special green tables. nostr:note1cdnpqm290nqmzmercv0yjpd2fy89kxe6v70s4wp6nuatcfjwel6s8hv3fx

Exactly. If the company wants mouse jiggling, who are we to judge them? People have different preferences. Variety is the spice of life. Some people like to pay mouse jigglers. There’s no accounting for taste.