Silberengel @Laeserin - 30d
Yeah, grants are also revenue. And it's revenue without users, so it tends to have no positive effect on expanding the overall market. Only business people wanting to actively earn income can get Nostr really going, IMO.
David @mleku - 30d
unfortunately the grant funded devs are a dead horse that isn't feeling the flogging.
Yeah, that's how centrally-planned economies always are; no response to market signals. You don't have to care about the market, when you're sitting on a literal pile of Bitcoin and can just subsist off of that, forever.
it even extends to VCs... because they have a big pile of money as well, the project doesn't have to have revenue for a long time. that's why there's no functional diference between damus and primal. both are not serving paying customers, but "investors"
Yeah, it's such a weird space, here. Completely defies all free market dynamics because it's aflood with charity. Charities are, by definition, not meant to solve the problems they address. They exist to perpetuate themselves by alleviating problems. These aren't real investors. Real investors want a return on investment, and efficient development raises their returns. Why would an investor pay €500k for something that would be built better for €5k? He wouldn't, but they are. The only real investors we have, on Nostr, are the individual people and companies zapping, crowdfunding, and making contracts with suppliers. We're increasingly off in our own economic ecosystem.
