Quote from: TPTB_need_war on October 16, 2015, 07:18:26 PM

Quote from: rpietila on October 16, 2015, 07:09:33 PM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on October 16, 2015, 06:30:52 PM

I am not too optimistic that a donation model can sufficiently fund, but I am willing to test it and find out.

Crypto Kingdom has been able to raise about $100k in its history for itself. But few know how much it has been able to raise for others. More than 10,000 XMR has been donated to Monero development through it directly. More than a dozen companies have been started and they are now valued between 1,000 and 30,000 XMR each.

What if you establish your project in Crypto Kingdom and start fundraising there?

I had roughly 200 man hours (2+ weeks @ 14 hour days) in development time for that crypto breakthrough on anonymity, including the research, invention, and writing the white paper. I was able to work very intensely in some spurts during June & July and my gf can attest to that. It was August & September due to some egregious errors on diet and fasting that sent me into a tailspin on health (will be explaining this theory shortly).

My inflation-adjusted income earning capacity was $563 per hour. Thus fair value for that work just based on the hourly compensation is $112,600. I had to risk doing my work before compensation from the market for CoolPage. Ditto for this anonymity invention. So the risk weighted hourly rate is justified. If you get offered $100-$300 per hour for guaranteed compensation that is a different category. The very high rate is to compensate for the risk of not being ever compensated.

So now you can see why very highly paid developers do not work on crypto. They have the potential to earn much more money outside of crypto and crypto is too small to afford the best developers.

If this community - which profits many ways from crypto currency - unable raise that $100k-$200k to fund a developer like yourself then this whole crypto currency idea is absolutely hopeless (the fact that Bitcoin is having 100K user base after 6 years indicates to me that the concept is evolving into a losing proposition anyway).

Try to stay healthy, and I am sure we the community will sort out the financials to keep you going.