First of all, it isn't fungible so it doesn't as an example of market-based compensation to incentivize other developers who are not ill. Kickstarter has a large economy-of-scale, because it is fungible (for both donators and creators). Remember one of your greatest arguments for the benefit of Monero's anonymity has been fungibility (against blacklisting, whitelisting, redlisting, etc) is a requirement for money.

Secondly, he could rather assign the value of his donation and we could agree on the value and I could continue to receive donations from others since not only did state I had numerous goals not just funding the potential diagnosis of my illness but also there is no non-Communist reason to limit the market expression of fair value. In short, he attempted to monopolize the market function and apply Communism. He tried to determine that everyone else should get it for free and unable to donate. His proposal bound everyone else, not just himself and myself.

I am for free markets. How about your smooth? You for Communism or free markets?


Thank you. I will have a post about new insight into my illness later. I'll probably link to it from here and/or the Ion project thread.

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Edit: I had always felt donations was sort of Communistic, but at least only those who had a vested interested would donate, so I am not surprised that the votes are reflecting a private advantage for Monero to implement it first. I always felt "first mover" advantage is the only way to really extract the true value from the work in crypto.