If Servicenodes were available, I'm sure a lot of people around here would set-up a fair few and donate most of their profits (after hosting costs).
You would probably see donations in the region of $3,000 to $7,000 / month, mainly because it would end up being a self funding mechanism where more development would equal higher price, would generate higher value donations, would generate more Bittrex activity.
Servicenodes would become the main patrons.
Agreed. Why not just use mr. Spreads original implementation, tie it to cpu mining or running a full spr node as a placeholder. Price will increase,network strengthened. and it will allow a greater window for what georgem is trying to accomplish. I'll certainly donate a fair amount of service node proceeds to development.