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It's not just crypto, and it's not just software. The grants round that opened today can be seen here: https://gitcoin.co/grants/#match-pools https://gitcoin.co
by imagineerschool 5y ago
It's not just crypto, and it's not just software.
The grants round that opened today can be seen here: https://gitcoin.co/grants/#match-pools https://gitcoin.co/grants/#match-pools
It includes grants for climate change and grants for longevity.
To answer your question, the difference from kickstarter is that grants for public goods don't produce products - they produce public goods.
It is possible to have many cynical takes, but if you scratch the surface, you'll see that funding public goods really is what this is all about.
- webmaven 5y ago> To answer your question, the difference from kickstarter is that grants for public goods don't produce products - they produce public goods. There are Patreons that work like that, where the work being funded gets released publicly (for example, Evil Hat Games was releasing Fate RPG books as "pay what you want" downloads on RPGDriveThrough. Patrons just got early access and similar privileges). Reminiscent of the Street Performer Protocol: https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/1998/11/the_street_performer.html https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/1998/11/the_stree...