| > How would the developers still be independent if they are supported by a big company? Jack Dorsey has Devs he pays in BTC whose sole job is to contribute to Bitcoin Core development and nothing else [1], they have no affiliation to his companies other than that. Also, he's an investor in LN labs who are technically their own thing led by Starkbot (Elizabeth Stark) [2]. So, it can and has been done. Personally speaking, a lot of the 'how would it ever work...' questions that come up here that are thought to be seemingly impossible to solve have often been pilot-tested inside the cryptocurrency space to one degree or another, so if nothing else I hope most of you can find value in that 'us crazy people' are actually pushing the envelope in the edge-cases of innovation. For example, because many of us have been proponents of UBI (from various source points, mind you) from either a pragmatic or an ideological standpoint, we've tried to see what verifiable widescale UBI deployment (in Iceland) would entail back in 2014; it failed, as many of us expected it would, but we tested hypothesis whose data could ultimately be used later to iterate and improve a system. 1: https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-jack-dorsey-square-crypto/ 2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/02/05/j... |