Posting from my phone, real quickly all, I'd like to point out the current devs have already earned a substantial amount of money...likely enough to live off for at least a few months/years/decades... They do not need the extra advantage, and it is up to them how much time they wish to allocate between the rest of their lives and Mastercoin considering the future reward. I do not support an ongoing salary for them until some sort of objectives are laid out for such a salary that cannot be better accomplished via bounties.
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Edit: board members include
Antony Vo (me)
JR
Ron Gross
David Johnston
Brock Pierce
Sam Yilmaz
Jonathan Yantis
This has nothing to do with an unfair advantage..This has everything to do with TIME spent on mastercoin. We need developers to spend more time developing mastercoin core and its features than they do at their Jobs..I don't think anyone will advocate an unfair advantage..You really believe that a bounty will provide the right incentive for a developers to spend more time working on mastercoin than a full time salary will? If this is your line of thinking and the resistance plaguing the board I think we are in trouble. We are dealing with centralized issues while trying to solve decentralized problems all over...
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