Unless of course your target market is not BTT, so you don't a fuck what they think. Let the astute ones join the ride if they want. And your target market aren't investors, so they don't even think of that.
Again, that's all cool, but how do you pay for the project? Self funded? That means (somewhat) rich people. At least by my definition. Yours might be "not irresponsible" but either way few are included.
You can do what Monero is doing which is people working part time, voluntary funding through donations, etc. We get some work done certainly, but it isn't exactly turbocharged. If the tortoise indeed wins the race, we may well do fine. You seem a bit panicked about the world, so perhaps you want things to move faster. You better have a good team of rich/non-irresponsible people lined up to make a run for it.
Indeed that seems to be the case.
People who have not put themselves in a position to be entrepreneurs can't be. And thus I feel they are dilutive at the innovation stage. I base this opinion on real world experience of successfully launching for example WordUp which I coded in my basement and generated in the 1980s $100,000 a year in income, which is several times that in today's money. And repeating the feat in 1998 with Cool Page, generating up to $400,000 a year, which is several $million a year in today's money.
So I speak from accomplishment, not from BS. (sorry iCETARD)