Quote from: novacadian on January 26, 2014, 05:11:42 AM

Quote from: melodiem on January 26, 2014, 01:49:18 AM

From an investment perspective this is a great idea but for many of the writers being paid shares each month, its about an income to live on, not invest. (edit) and I suspect that if developers are paid in DVC this would be the case for many as well.

Speaking only for myself, this is not the case. Nor would it be my wish to bring any crypto currencies out of my wallets at this time. Things have been comfortable for me financially before coming to this community, though my lifestyle is not lavish.

My interest is the philosophy behind devcoins and watching it growing and evolve. It is great that if some folks need the extra cash to get by, that it is there for them to do so. It is hard for me to believe that the crash of DVC each share split truly reflects the need of the many but more the large degree of non-believers it is currently carrying. If one believes then dumping one's coins is selling oneself short. Unless we are talking about selling and buying with day trades. That helps to put stability in the market.

It's not my wish to point fingers. Most likely, things will sort themselves out over time. It just feels good, for me, to have finally become a junior contributor of this community. Perhaps other programmers get the same buzz as me, just having people using their software, regardless of the monetary payout. My guess is that real writers feel the same when someone reads their work or real graphic artist/painters see their work hanging on someone else's walls.

- Nova

I dont argue that the very best way to support DVC is not to sell quickly and to trade etc, but reading the Git repository over the last few days, from the original developer, the whole point of devcoins was/is to give an acceptable income back to developers/creators:

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Because developers get so little, they can only develop their projects in their spare time, which makes development really slow. Feature requests and critiques do not accelerate development, money will.

Devcoins provide an income for everyone who wants to work, even if they live in an area with more job seekers than jobs. With devcoin, no one who wants to work need be completely out of money. Anyone who does good work will get some devcoins. There is no guarantee that this will be a high income, but something is way better than nothing.

By buying devcoins you help developers and give the world more open source software, books, music, art, and movies.

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https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/devcoin.html

There is an absolute need for speculators and investors in Devcoin but to suggest that writers/developers or any other contributor, is somehow not supporting the community or does not "believe" by seeking to earn an income from their original works (ie, selling their coins) is contrary to this basic intention (IMO)