Utopian-io is just a fledgling example of where this is all going. It blows my mind that a superior hacker blockchain hasn't popped up yet.

Once we have an open source software development blockchain with a rock solid hierarchy of leadership we'll be set. The leaders of such a blockchain would be responsible for figuring out what needs to be done and how to get it done.

Every piece of a project would be broken up into sections that could be programmed by a single person. Then you put bounties on each piece so developers know how much crypto they'll get if they accomplish a task. On a chain like Steem bounties like this could keep getting upvoted over time until the value is high enough for someone to take on the work. Then you'd probably want a different person to come in and test/review it for a share of crypto as well.

I know if I was in charge of such a blockchain my first focus would obviously be maintaining and upgrading the blockchain. My second focus would probably be Linux. Tertiary priorities would be my personal projects (small games and apps and such).

In the end it really comes down to: How do you know if someone is worthy of having power over blockchain inflation. Proof-of-Work says computing power. Proof-of-stake says investment in the blockchain. What I aim toward is Proof-of-Trust, a system that doesn't even exist yet. This is a generic idea. Every blockchain would have different rules determining if their users were trustworthy or not. On on a software development blockchain it would likely have a lot to do with how much you've contributed, how much those contributions have helped the blockchain, and how little bugs there were in the code you wrote. On Steem it would be split into three sections: creating content, curating content, and judging content.