Hi Pyra-proxy,

Estimates of what project types devcoin can support for a given market capitalization are now at:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin_Bounty#Project_Types

Devcoin market capitalization is about 70,000 USD at the time of this writing.

Quote from: pyra-proxy on October 16, 2012, 04:31:25 PM

Could you not make possibly one of the most significant bounties to the current cryptocoin ecosystem to help deal with this? And that is a bounty for say one of the following scenarios:

1) Implementation and tested patch to dvc which upgrades the system to a full ledger system complete with empty address pruning etc.
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That project type would be a modification to a big application:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin_Bounty#Software_2

which is in the 1,000,000 USD section, too big for devcoin to fund now.

Quote from: pyra-proxy on November 12, 2012, 07:56:51 AM

In reference to a post I have just seen:

How about adding devcoin bounty shares for open source DIY low/reasonable costing renewable energy devcoin mining setups. As part of the conditions I would recommend at least the following:
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4) The DIY kit should provide power in 1 of 3 scenarios - a) always available; b) available during day with battery charging for night availability; c) depend on power grid sale/repurchase (i.e. produce extra when power available expecting extra to be sold on the local grid which can then be "repurchased" when the power is unavailable from the kit .... but in all cases the kit provides 24/7 power needs for the targeted platform.

The pure solar power version could be covered by the Sun Tracker in the 10,000,000,USD section:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin_Bounty#Hardware_3

The battery charging version could be covered by the Energy Storage System in the 100,000,000 USD section:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin_Bounty#Hardware_4

Both are too big for devcoin to fund right now.

However, if people are offering a sufficient bounty for people to get interested in a project, for example the 185+ BTC - Open Transactions Client (for Grandmas) project:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=105506.0

then I suggest that devcoin pile in with a bounty if the project is at least one quarter funded. In the project types section:
http://devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin_Bounty#Project_Types

it is assumed that the bounty offered would be up to 1% of the market capitalization. So the 1,000,000 USD required for modification to a big application works out to a 10,000 USD bounty, a quarter of which is 2,500 USD.

Should 8 shares be offered if the pledges go above 2,500 USD? Should the pledge target be different?