Thanks for that sentiment. I would probably only do that if I was desperate and even then I'd probably find another way to get some money to survive on while coding. He paid me 5 BTC so they already funded me a bit. He was very upstanding in his interaction with me.

First I don't feel comfortable with taking money from people on a promise of work that has yet to have been done. I know the nature of tech is it morphs along the way. My personality in the past was to deliver, not promise, although this appears to have changed with the advent of the internet to waste my time pontificating on.

Secondly I don't think great software innovation can be purchased with money. Innovation is born in the desire of the creator to change the world. The lure of a great monetary payoff can enhance the lure, but paying in advance is very demotivating (why work hard if already paid?) and it attracts the wrong mindset of developer.

It is always best to not pay a dime and let people create the parts of the ecosystem independently and profit on and control their own projects. This is why it is best to design systems to be modular so that the entire system doesn't have to be controlled and created by one group or entity. This is why I suggested the best design of a programmable block chain is merged mining (find it in U.T.'s archives).

Just putting my ideas out there may help to motivate others to implement.