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 Nostr dot com for sale! $5m, offer ends 20th Sept, at which point it will come under the umbrella/management of LNbits Inc for 3 years.
(If sold, I commit to 10% going to fiatjaf, and 10% towards LNbits development). DM or email ben at lnbits dot com if interested.

Rationale: I would of course prefer to keep it, but current needs must. I bought the domain in 2020 for $5k, and it's value is at least x1000. If its not sold, @lnbits will use for services, such as relays and sell NIP05 handles.

The sale must be to the right person/project/company who will use it for something great. 
 Why? It's privately owned now, and I can't dedicate enough time to it. Let's see who offers  
 So people are not allowed to sell things they own? I'll be in prague and btc Amsterdam, so let's chat there 👍 
 At the moment it's owned by just me, it needs team of people to make this site as useful as it should be.  
 And ifs not the right team/people/company isn't found LNbits willmanage it. I don't see the issue 
 If I am in fact a dick then surely the domain would be better managed by someone else? Roger Ver didn't sell his domain and he is a monster dick. Would it of been a dick move if he had sold to something better? 
It's about seeing if a person/company/project exists out there who are appropriate to pass onto. Likelihood is that there is not, so LNbits will officially manage after 20th, so I'm less of an attack vector. Either way, whatever comes next for the domain is better. 
 Did you know, you can now spin up your own @lnbits
 instance paid in sats per hr on http://lnbits.com !!?? 🤯
Currently a BETA service, only use for testing!

https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_1855388d342e2655852e7937d8d6f622399288eef6511e482a06602259618959.mp4 
 Fed up only being able to connect #LightningNetwork wallets to your node over http/tor, and want to be able to also use nostr?🤔
Support Nip-83!
(Will also make building non-custodial wallet functions in nostr clients much easier 👍)
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/433/files