The current plan consists in giving out money not for specific tasks, but for general open-source efforts that seem to be worth it according to my own completely arbitrary and subjective judgment and hand out microbounties to these.

The idea is that people will give a little more priority working on Nostr things that they already wanted to because they have a chance of getting a microbounty for it while if they work on another side project like a rollercoaster building game they don’t have that chance (although rollercoaster building games have other advantages).

Here is a list of themes that I currently think are worth exploring more, to serve as an inspiration: Themes

• Microapps (Nostr apps that do only one thing and do it well), for example:
  • An app for just publishing things and reading replies
  • An app for just managing your contacts
  • An app for just reading threads
• Native apps instead of web
• Pull requests that add these nice features to existing clients instead of making a new client
• 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
• Usable tricks to secure keys that can still work in practice, some stupid examples:
  • A client (or addition to existing clients) that stores encrypted Nostr on the user’s Google Drive and the decryption key for that on a custom server
  • An integrated multisig server that signs stuff upon request
• 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
  • Faster
• Non-public relays use cases

Bounties given

February 2023

• styppo: 5,000,000 sats - https://hamstr.to/
• sandwich: 5,000,000 sats - https://nostr.watch/
• BOUNTY: Relay-centric client designs: 5,000,000 sats https://bountsr.org/design/2023/01/26/relay-based-design.html
  • BOUNTY: Gossip model on https://coracle.social/: 5,000,000 sats
  • Nostrovia Podcast: 3,000,000 sats - https://nostrovia.org/
  • BOUNTY: Nostr-Desk / Monstr: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/alemmens/monstr
  • Mike Dilger: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

January 2023

• ismyhc: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/Galaxoid-Labs/Seer
• Martti Malmi: 5,000,000 sats - https://iris.to/
• Carlos Autonomous: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/BrightonBTC/bija
• Koala Sat: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/KoalaSat/nostros
• Vitor Pamplona: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst
• Cameri: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/Cameri/nostream

December 2022

• William Casarin: 7 BTC - splitting the fund
• pseudozach: 5,000,000 sats - https://nostr.directory/
• Sondre Bjellas: 5,000,000 sats - https://notes.blockcore.net/
• Null Dev: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/KotlinGeekDev/Nosky
• Blake Jakopovic: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostcat, https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostreq and https://github.com/blakejakopovic/NostrEventPlayground