As the core idea of the merger was to acquire more developers. Let's start drumming up ideas how we can onboard new talent to the darkcoin team. There needs to be some sort of incentive or clever marketing to weed out some of the good devs
I'll happily donate half my MN earnings to a developer fund if devs are needed, and I think they are. As long as it goes to professional devs hired/contracted who have real names and real experience, not some faceless cryptognat clown.
You are not alone there, but it is not a big field of donators. The foundation will be trying that,
but competent developers are expensive, that's why we were exploring different ideas.
I disagree. Competent developers can create their own value wherever they choose to spend their time and talent. The problem is too many of them are tempted by short term greed. Launch, pump, dump. Repeat. Look at XC / Blocknet for the latest example. Other problems:
1. They are tempted by the prospect of levering up to a huge initial cache of coins they make for themselves either through pre-mine or insta-mining.
2. Devs are unwilling to accept that they can actually invest/mine/take donations in any existing coin and dramatically alter the course of development and prospects for success, if they have the talent and vision.