I don't get why people are mad at this. If it mattered then bitcoin would be fucked because bitcoin.com has been owned by a nefarious actor for years.
I don't think anyone uses nostr.com and maybe someone can make something actually useful with it.
Let the man do what he wants
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Didn't notice how badly people are triggered until after I read the discussions on Nostr. But I guess that Ben's European-style "socialist" views are also cause of trigger for many, seeing how is being called a communist. "Freedom-for-all" unless it differs from my own political views syndrom?
Interesting to see how people who are so often posturing about free market don't want the just let the market actually decide. My guess is also that the market will probably tell him this is too much of an asking price, but who knows... I'd be happy to see Ben get some financial security after he's done so much for the FOSS field.
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I just think it is funny that a self-professed "socialist" is trying to make $5 million for a website domain. Shouldn't he be giving it away "for the greater good?"
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True ;)
But then again, aren't we all bit of gamblers here...
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How did you justify to yourself back in 2020, wagering 5k that Nostr would even still be operating in 2023, nonetheless still both have that name and also be the phenomena it is today?
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I'm not sure the criteria he lays out fit any potential buyers. They're basically:
  1. you have lots of money
  2. project/person is sanctioned ... ie your purchase of the domain isn't primarily financially motivated
Why not just send jack a dm?
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my exact thoughts. I have no idea who else would qualify both criteria
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Its a good price
Hope someone in ETHland doesn't just buy it to F with bitcoin.
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"Rationale: I would of course prefer to keep it, but current needs must."
He has big needs!
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I'll buy that for a dollar
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Good that nostr is decentralized, so this is not relevant at all
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I don't support them selling.
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wow, that's a big payday
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I'm always stunned when I think of how voice.com paid, I think, $30 million for that domain. (Then made a long form blog site then suddenly switched to an NFT platform mid-way through the NFT boom.)
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Speculators gonna be speculate, think its a little bit early for the nostr "brand term" really, like what are you going to build on that domain? A client? A wiki and Nostr-only news website?
Even then it wouldn't be much of a revenue driver to justify the price, you really just paying a vanity premium, so I guess someone like Jack would be the only person with the bags for that
I never really understood selling domain names without first building a traffic-generating element on the site first, but if he can get a buyer for that, great thats quite the ROI
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Nothing :) I'm working on Njump, that is actually tied to nostr.com like many other tools (ex. nak.nostr.com, metadata.nostr.com) for convenience. If something changes maybe there will be another web access point for nostr profiles and notes that will use Njump, and people will update their link in bio. Domains are centralized by their nature, we can use them as web proxy (same applies for NIP-05), but avoiding blind trust.
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I thought it was 5M sats... no?
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He mentions in a Twitter exchange that he would take whatever equivalent amount in BTC too. Guess it is just telling that at this point in the real world dollar-amounts still make most sense for most people when bills need to be paid.
Describing Ben Arc as candy-ass bitcoiner does not really fit the image I have of him as having made A LOT of real-world impact to the Bitcoin field with his FOSS POS systems, Nostr development, etc, but I guess that's just a figure of speech.
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