Quote from: jokers10 on Today at 07:03:17 AM

Quote from: 1miau on September 03, 2023, 11:29:35 PM

So, in my opinion these funds are still valid for possible refunds of damaged customers but I would also say if a Bitcointalk community vote was held, funds could be spent otherwise.
It's mainly public funds now. But not exclusively.
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After all it's also public funds and the purpose of these funds should happen by a democratic decision of Bitcointalk's community. It's what happens to public funds.
We would only need to decide who's eligible to vote in case of a decision: just campaign participants, in addition to campaign participants certain ranks (Hero / Legendary) or everyone above Member rank / xx Merit earned?

I said that in another topic already: the fact that someone disappeared or scammed doesn't make his money our.

Once again it's important to avoid mining up both cases.

While for Whirlwind, the incident happened a few weeks ago and there are likely more customers to be refunded. That's why I'm in favor to keep the escrow fund where it is currently. It's serving a purpose.

It's different for ChipMixer. ChipMixer isn't an escrow fund, it's for ChipMixer's Signature campaign. Considering these funds have been sent now, without any explanation and broader community consent is exactly what I believe is how these funds shouldn't be handled. We don't know why and where the 1.3 BTC were sent to.

The issue: there are not any rules yet how such funds should be treated for the ChipMixer case. The community needs to define these rules or we will have this coming up again. Maybe not every year but maybe every 2 years.
At least for the Whirlwind Escrow fund, the funds are serving a purpose currently.

When we talked about the compensation for damage which was made by escrow guy, this is what this money was left for, so it's the main purpose for it. If there will be revealed that there are other victims, they can claim damages as well, if they will provide sufficient data to escrow guy. But that's all.

So I agree with LoyceV, I'm not going to take part in any voting on how to deal with other people's money. And please don't place me anyhow on a list of those who can anyhow get any penny benefit from this money.
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