[sangnoir]

You seem extremely vested[1] in this, and have been very active in this thread - are you affiliated with the freshly-registered company? If so, I'd encourage you not to hide behind a throwaway because it gives the impression that you don't want to stand by your words.

More on topic: does this mean occasional/casual contributors to the project will continue to work for free while maintainers & employees get paid?

1. You looked up the name of one commenter and the donations made in their name 3 years ago.

[throwaccount12]

Indeed I have been active. I am passionate about funding in open source, and saw someone link this on mastodon, and so I signed up to comment on things. I only know what has been said in the blog post. I have attempted to disclose all my leanings, and follow ddevault [0] and disclose especially around crypto things

> Additionally, we’re planning on establishing a fund to be able to provide support to contributors who not only contribute features, but also bug fixes, performance enhancements, and important refactors.

Sounds like occasional contributors can receive payment as well.

Like you, I also agree that financial disclosures and citing sources are important, and so so that is why I took the 5 seconds to validate a claim someone made, and also found someone in this thread who very clearly is not disclosing a financial stake in the matter.

Edit: I have seen a maintainer in this thread, perhaps he could share some more details as they come.

[0]: https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disas...