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No Bullshit Bitcoin | 11 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +5 
 OpenSats Announces Third Wave of Bitcoin Grants

"Thank you for your continual and generous support. As we don't take a cut from donations to open-source projects, we couldn't be doing what we are doing without your help. If you want to help us cover our operational expenses, please consider donating to our operations budget."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/opensats-announces-third-wave-of-bitcoin-grants/
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Dr. Hax | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I guess the #Nostr backed store (MagicWebStore) is solving the wrong problem for this round of funding.

It's trying to get more people to be able to pay and get paid in #Bitcoin (via #lightning or otherwise). It's trying to gain adoption.

I think that's incredibly important, and very much needed, but when I submitted it a few weeks ago, transactions were 50¢. Trying to use bitcoin as digital cash in the current environment is laughable. So funding projects that makes the system usable again before trying to bring more people on board (or getting people who are alredy on board to spend their coins)

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