How should the STEEM blockchain development be funded?
How should the STEEM blockchain development be funded?
While participating at The State of Steem Forum #2, the question came up as to how should the STEEM blockchain development be funded?
Choose from the answers below or comment and suggest.
- Steemit Inc.
- Utopian.io Ideas, Tasks & Development posts
- Automated daily post to fund a treasury with a dApp voting portal
- Implement a governance portal with a proposal voting system in the blockchain using inflation to finance the treasury
- Fundition.io Campaign
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It shouldn't need to be funded, it's supposed to be open source.
Are you suggesting for the software to be developed solely by volunteers?
Voted for Implement a governance portal with a proposal voting system in the blockchain using inflation to finance the treasury.
I'm not sure which of these involves not needing to sell STEEM to keep the wheels turning, but this one sounds the closest to that at least being a possibility.
Bottom line, I think the approach should support development without requiring continual downward pressure on the price of STEEM and vulnerability to periodic market lows.
Voted for Implement a governance portal with a proposal voting system in the blockchain using inflation to finance the treasury.
Only after premined stake that was set aside for dev is removed.
Voted for Fundition.io Campaign.
Better all of the above.
Voted for Utopian.io Ideas, Tasks & Development posts.
Voted for Implement a governance portal with a proposal voting system in the blockchain using inflation to finance the treasury.
Voting for "self-funded", not listed in the options above.
Can you elaborate?
it feels to me that if we used inflation to finance a treasury, that would be self funding.
There's two sides to this. One side in my view consists of two aspects: 1. if we somehow pre-fund any projects, we will be have that funding exploited and sub-par work produced. 2. if we fund net-# then we can be rest assured that only quality work will be supported (or no funding will be released).
The other side consists of the fact that we want to get away from the notion that "someone else" should always pay for all development. I have to fund my projects and all my contributions. So do others. Their hours on Github don't get funded. Do we want to say that that time and effort are of lower quality and value than potential future contributions that would "require" funding?
Let me think about my answer here for a bit. I'll put up a post if I can figure something out.
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