I am 100% behind your decisions and I think you've made the right call on the issue of not forcing a vote on setting aside funds. However, I must ask that we please consider at least having a short-term period of accepting donations for the foundation post-launch to a foundation address before assessing community health and making any broader decisions regarding the direction of iota.
I agree with rlh, pledges are hypothetical funds, and there's no guarantee you'll ever see that amount.
But, if you setup a foundation fund raising campaign post launch with a set deadline, people can track the amounts raised, and the community gets motivated, especially as the deadline gets closer. Nothing is theoretical with this, all funds raised are in the bank, and people can see clearly what's going on, and judge for themselves the likely success or failure of the fund raising, plus it generates interest and exposure.
That's what project Tennessee did with their fundraising, and it worked a treat! As the deadline got closer, and it looked like their 10M NXT target might not be reached a big holder got motivated and pushed it over the line in one go. The donation below to TNNSE was worth 2M NXT at the time, or 20% of the target, and it came in the last few days when it looked like the target might not be reached. Nothing was theoretical, and the implications of failure were obviously sufficient motivation for Aldrin to donate.
IOTA could follow the same plan as TNNSE did!
AWESOME NEWS!!
Aldrin has just donated 20,000 InstantDEX for sale for TNSSE.
His conditions for sale are the following:
- The price is 100 NXT per asset.
- We do the sale strictly OTC.
- We will reserve the NXT into TNSSE in the name of the buyer, who will then receive his TNSSE part once the TNSSE are released.
- We are selling the Assets on a first-come-first-served basis based on offers in this thread!
Assets are already in my account: NXT-D6K7-MLY6-98FM-FLL5T
This donation donation comes from parties involved with InstantDEX and jl777, and therefore SuperNET.
Please put offers in the thread if you want to buy AND support!
Aldrin has just donated 20,000 InstantDEX for sale for TNSSE.
His conditions for sale are the following:
- The price is 100 NXT per asset.
- We do the sale strictly OTC.
- We will reserve the NXT into TNSSE in the name of the buyer, who will then receive his TNSSE part once the TNSSE are released.
- We are selling the Assets on a first-come-first-served basis based on offers in this thread!
Assets are already in my account: NXT-D6K7-MLY6-98FM-FLL5T
This donation donation comes from parties involved with InstantDEX and jl777, and therefore SuperNET.
Please put offers in the thread if you want to buy AND support!