Re: [ANN][DRK] Darkcoin | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW and Darksend | Instant TX
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.
Ideally, I think, funding for developers (if necessary - though I don't think it necessarily should be) would come from foundation funds. There are problems with relying on voluntary community donations and major issues with siphoning funds from MNs or miners in a non-voluntary manner.
The idea with Shadowcoin was not primarily to gain more devs - that we could do anyway. It was consolidation, on several fronts. It's easy to get impatient with waiting for that to happen organically, and I think maybe that's what was driving this idea. It was exploratory at this point, for what it's worth. The fact that it leaked says quite a bit. Better that it happened now I suppose.
Nice to see your around bro.
Seems like the good old days again...
About funding, I just read this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=849434.0 - half a million $ for a crappy doge app. Have any efforts been made by The Foundation in approaching VC types? Ending up beholden to the paymaster is a big concern, but there are people out there seemingly rabid to throw cash at anything with the vaguest hope of a return... I am surprised that DRK hasn't had big money come knocking on the door yet...