Let's not focus away from the fact that they are collecting rewards for all those invitations. Rewards that are supposed to be spread evenly amongs miners who work really hard to keep their "human status" and look for people who are not going to waste those invitations.
They make the pot of rewards smaller for everyone else by issuing their own invitations.
Those are good points, but at least, that funds are not for devs own pocket, it is to fund development of projects to support Idena.
We have two challenges right now that will be funded from these funds:
1. [$5000 DNAs] Build Idena Ethereum Relay - read descripton in the link below
https://github.com/idena-network/idena-go/issues/4262. [$4000 DNAs] Use sign-in with Idena function - read descripton in the link below
https://github.com/idena-network/idena-go/issues/431Everyone is free if they possess some developer skills to particapate in these challenges and get reward in DNA.
I yet have to wrap my head around these first 2 things that will be developed, and all the benefit Idena will get from it
Imagine Airdrops start using Idena-Eth relay to drop coins only to validated Idena users...? No sybils... real people...