Oddbean new post about login | logout Dont forget an important fact that Jack funds nostr to the tune of about 1 million dollars a month just to keep the lights on. Without that, you would see a very different situation. That is a central point of failure right there, that cannot be wished away.
Oh wow I didn’t realize he is doing this monthly, what a an OG 🏆
Its completely false
Is it? How much has Jack donated to Open Sats nostr fund alone? (I honestly don’t know, but wouldn’t be surprised if it was 10+ Million)
nostr needs maybe a couple thousand dollars a month to keep the lights on. Clients already exist and running relays is insanely cheap. Damus will keep working even money runs out. You can’t say the same about bluesky
The problem is software is not static and cannot be You need to update it as the userbase scales and the environment changes, if that was not true, we could just not have NostrDB and still use Branle You also forgot the human cost of operating servers and the gap in user count
I think about 56m but about half goes to btc. I would expect another 21m in march. Let's see.
This is not a serious argument. Jack's generous donations amount to about $1mm a month and makes a massive impact. Especially since most non-payroll devs have left.
there were plenty of clients before jack arrived, even damus. nostr worked fine. this idea that nostr needs 1m per month to survive is extremely misleading and simply wrong.
the truth is that opensats is burning money on gimmick projects
dammit. i say nice things to you and zap you all the time. but you only respond to the retarded things. Thats it. Damus is made from stolen top secret CIA Alien ™️ code and rotten dandelion stems. And it takes at least $7 million opium rubles a month to keep its servers running. And the worst part is, its developed on Xmonad.
Also deepstates are behind the Nostr and almost everyone on the top of Nostr reach is FBI agent!
It's paid annually $21mm a year to open sats + more to other places. You can average it to about $1mm a month. Folks could deny this, or that it makes a big impact on nostr. But that is not a serious argument. https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/opensats-receives-21-million-from-twitter-co-founder-jack-dorsey
This doesn't seem correct. $5M in 2023. $5M in 2024. $10M in total since may 2023. Over 18 months. That would be $555K a month on average. But that would be if it's all spent as of today. We know that's not the case though since grants are paid out over the course of a year or several years in some cases. It's far, far less, IMO.
im honestly starting to think you’re legitimately redarded.
He might have a point except the money is being spent poorly. NOSTR development is laughably inefficient. If there wasn't so much money available, devs would actually have to cooperate and focus instead of building garbage on top of garbage on top of garbage, before scrapping that and building new garbage. I don't think much of that money is dedicated to hosting regardless, though. I think most people hosting relay and media servers are just doing it out of pocket. It's probably not an overly expensive thing to do at NOSTR's size.
one thing I think about is how the centralization of their funding might have affected their design. their architecture looks like what happens when you have teams that divide themselves into micro-services.