Quote from: toknormal on April 09, 2016, 12:42:27 AM

Quote from: eduffield on April 09, 2016, 12:27:03 AM

If they get paid to do this work from the blockchain, then we should be tracking their milestones and releasing money for the work that's being done.

Evan - you're thinking like a bank manager not like a monetary token developer.

"God" created gold.

He left it lying there to be discovered and people endowed it with value. It got acquired in all different ways - some people lost their lives mining it, others just tripped over it during a hillwalk. There was no rhyme or reason for its ascension to acceptance as a monetary medium other than its core monetary properties which were consistent throughout all of its incarnations - whether monetary, decorative or industrial.

Thats the difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin. Ethereum needs development funds (because it isn't money) and Bitcoin doesn't (because it is).

Bitcoin is currently a metric by which all other trades are measured in the cryptocurrency economy and thats enough. Dash had a chance at that with the Proof of Labour proposal and blew it out. (Hopefully it will get it back again Roll Eyes

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Turning the blockchain funding mechanism into the equivalent of my local bank manager who wants to see "returns" and asks people to fill in a 7-level form is about as appealing as eating the trimmings off a coffin. Nobody will ever apply (at least nobody that has a semblance of creativity about them).

If you put the same effort into developing Dash's monetary properties as you are proposing to put into it's "business properties" you'd have arrived.

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It's all there in the Evolution document. I suggest you go back and read your own script Wink

But Tok, even you can agree that it isn't a good idea to hand people money from the blockchain and trust them to do what they say they will without any milestones or required reports. As the DASH budget grows that will lead to dishonest behavior and clever people scamming the governance system. Currently, the "reporting system" is somebody writing an angry post on dashtalk and kot posting some document so quell them.

I do see what you are saying that too many rules/reports will push people not to apply so maybe Evan is going too far, but I think he is on the right track. Automating the governance to some extent will fast track DASH development with the goal of becoming money.