let's scale up our marketing and recruit new users. Some of them will be devs and they might contribute to Gridcoin development, increasing the amount we spend on it, reaching a new, higher and more productive dev/marketing equilibrium.

Agreed 100%. I've said it before and I'll say it again, a Gridcoin ad was my first exposure to Gridcoin several years ago. I organized (in a vague sense) the rebranding effort. @joshoeah, whether brought into the fold via paid ads or organically executed and created an entire brand image for Gridcoin. Users who want to see a project they care about become even better are what makes Gridcoin as strong as it is.

Gridcoin has an really strong community. I believe we will self organize and do everything we need to do. The main thing we need centrally planned is a marketing fund to bring in more of said users.