Oddbean

Man.. Bitcoiners really have a PTSD with Foundations don't they? You all need therapy. :) It doesn't need to be just one association for Nostr. The goal is to not centralize, but the decentralize from today's projects and create free-market accountability to the decision on the application of the cash alone. That is a feedback loop that should be separate from the application development feedback loop. Devs can do the app dev feedback loop just fine. But we are generally terrible to create good cash application feedback loops. Separating the two makes sense. It allows users to bet on separate individuals. nostr:nevent1qqsw2nlnf928yz59e7y8xnx6p9p7385shvan0tg2gxrqrwatyxphxlqpzemhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6q3qgcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqxpqqqqqqzr7dy7l

There are pros and cons with the socialist economy model, it gives everyone opportunity and nobody gets left behind but it prevents anyone from doing better than the other no matter the output. Challenge with this is when one is outperforming the other, or has diff goals and drive. I think the innovators and entrepreneurs have to be distinguished here. Innovators who just want specific niche creation and have nothing to do with users, marketing, finance might like it. Entrepreneurs with drive would find it stifling. There are multi million revenue making businesses out there using open source, and it uses both infusion of socialism and capitalism. Read another piece of yours on fundings - bootstrap works but will be slower than injected funds. Operating from a balance sheet works but will be slower growth as you break even much later. You can work on the side to fund your startup but it will be a slow slow crawl. Injected funds can be anything - grants, competition wins, p2p, equity etc. Once you put everything into a p&l and a projected one, the strategy gets clearer. But I think with bitcoin and nostr, you have to find use cases and go out there and meet people to increase adoption (not just at bitcoin conf but places where your use cases are relevant - could be your local hood). You are a seasoned entrepreneur, you prob know this better than anyone here - one can keep building and have daily affirmations but that's just half the work. The other half is immense pain lol. But a necessity.