Yes, overreliance on grants (and especially grants determined by one committee) is hurting the internal marketplace and causing unecessary strife, as we easily predicted months ago (this is just beginners' Austrian economics).

Nostr needs at least _additional_ funding models, including some that might not turn a profit for years. 

 We have said, from the beginning, that we are interested in establishing the concept of "paying for work" directly, both by demonstratively paying our own suppliers, working for bounties, finding external funding sources by marketing our products, and by requesting payment for our own services through zaps, subscriptions, fees, sales, or etc.

It is a cultural change, we wish to promote.