[ilaksh]

I have done several jobs on sites like that. Even though I knew there were few if any that would really pay fairly.

The reason is that those sites are a technology designed to solve the problem I had which was programming contracts. They actually do it fairly well in many cases. The problem is that most projects on the site are underfunded and poorly managed.

And then the fact that the third party has control over your money is a big issue.

To me blaming people who participate in this marketplace and saying that you can only take projects via traditional marketing and networking is ridiculous.

In my opinion having a technology platform to facilitate this stuff makes perfect sense. Now, there are issues related to quality projects, quality workers, and control over funds. I believe that these issues can be mitigated in a new open decentralized platform based on cryptocurrency and smart contracts.