710 BTC is too little for this project, developers should have another one, or it's NOT fair for developers, if developers stop to do development, price will drop to Zero.
Likelihood of developers stopping increases proportionally with all this annoying fund talk.
Other than that: I do not want to play any role in anything that goes beyond coding, but from what I read occasionally I would really suggest to improve the quality of the communication which goes outside of the project. If I didn't know better, I think I would get a pretty bad image of Elastic quickly.
Just a suggestion from someone who observes

EK, I fail to comprehend, why is it that people(you included) tend to give such weight and importance to the fraction who make negative/annoying/FUD like noise, where as the vast majority here, who are supportive/decent/positive do not really get the same attention/importance?
You, and the rest of the devs, and the project in general, are so highly valued by so many people here in the community (the vast vast majority), why not focus on them instead of the negative ones who are not worth the time/attention?
Please keep on seeing the good and positive in this community/project
Thank you
