40 bounties of 5,000,000 satoshis each to projects or pull requests to existing projects that show up in the following areas:
Microapps (Nostr apps that do only one thing and do it well)
An app for just publishing things and reading replies
An app for just managing your contacts
An app for just reading threads
Mobile apps are very much needed
New use cases besides “social” but that still deliver interoperability and standardized behavior between clients
Bonus points if these new use cases can be interacted with with from the “social” clients in some way, e.g.
if you do webpage comments on Nostr you can see and interact with these from social clients as normal posts
If you do wikipedia on Nostr you can comment on these articles from social clients
Key management, remote signing, delegation
Relay discovery
Because we should not assume everybody will always be in all relays or that clients will talk to all relays all the time forever
Making existing things prettier and better
Non-public relays use cases
Anti-spam techniques
The same person can win multiple of these, or their size can be increased or reduced according to the size or impact of the work.
The idea here is not that everybody will try to please the grant distributors by working on things they don’t want while expecting some payment. The idea is that people will work for free regardless, so they better do something that they wanted to do anyway. The list of things above serves as a nudge just in case they’re unsure on what to work on.
Extra work bounties: 400,000,000 satoshis 8 bounties of 50,000,000 satoshis each to projects that have won some of the grants above such that they keep working on their projects and making them better, with or without some specified conditions.
Community prizes: 100,000,000 satoshis
For 6 times probably every two months the community will vote on the coolest projects to win a prize of 16,666,666 satoshis. Specific tasks
These are things we want to see done and that may have some specific requirements, kinda like a job. More may be added from community input. If someone wants to execute these tasks they must put up a proposal first (just saying “I can do this” basically) and once they are chosen they can start with the guarantee that they will get the money if they deliver the task, not having to compete with others.
A nice website with good documentation: 10,000,000 satoshis
More to be added from community suggestions
Thank you: 20,000,000 satoshis 2,000,000 satoshis as small tokens of gratitude to people who have contributed to the bootstrapping of the Nostr ecosystem:
Richard Bondi (early Nostr tooling)
Ben Arc (Nostrtwitter)
scsibug (nostr-rs-relay)
Jb55 (Damus)
Supertestnet (Anigma)
Cameri (nostr-ts-relay)
eskema (alphaama)
floppy disk guy (joinstr)
Leo Wandersleb (nostroid)
Uncle Bob Martin (more-speech)
This is not a payment for your work of love, because that is priceless, it is just so your efforts don’t go without mention. It is also terrible because there were many other valuable contributions that are not mentioned here and life is sad.
Nostr fund https://jb55.com/s/nostr-fund.pdf
(from pdf:)
Microgrants: 200,000,000 satoshis
40 bounties of 5,000,000 satoshis each to projects or pull requests to existing
projects that show up in the following areas:
standardized behavior between clients
from the “social” clients in some way, e.g.
interact with these from social clients as normal posts
articles from social clients
relays or that clients will talk to all relays all the time forever
The same person can win multiple of these, or their size can be increased or
reduced according to the size or impact of the work.
The idea here is not that everybody will try to please the grant distributors by
working on things they don’t want while expecting some payment. The idea is
that people will work for free regardless, so they better do something that they
wanted to do anyway. The list of things above serves as a nudge just in case
they’re unsure on what to work on.
Extra work bounties: 400,000,000 satoshis
8 bounties of 50,000,000 satoshis each to projects that have won some of the
grants above such that they keep working on their projects and making them
better, with or without some specified conditions.
Community prizes: 100,000,000 satoshis
For 6 times probably every two months the community will vote on the coolest
projects to win a prize of 16,666,666 satoshis.
Specific tasks
These are things we want to see done and that may have some specific
requirements, kinda like a job. More may be added from community input. If
someone wants to execute these tasks they must put up a proposal first (just
saying “I can do this” basically) and once they are chosen they can start with the
guarantee that they will get the money if they deliver the task, not having to
compete with others.
Thank you: 20,000,000 satoshis
2,000,000 satoshis as small tokens of gratitude to people who have contributed
to the bootstrapping of the Nostr ecosystem:
This is not a payment for your work of love, because that is priceless, it is just so
your efforts don’t go without mention. It is also terrible because there were
many other valuable contributions that are not mentioned here and life is sad.
(end of pdf)