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I’ve been paid by a DAO! Group of people proposed something, it was accepted by a governance council, people wrote some test cases, I submitted some code, peopl
by exdsq 5y ago
I’ve been paid by a DAO! Group of people proposed something, it was accepted by a governance council, people wrote some test cases, I submitted some code, people reviewed it, test cases passed, and I received some crypto
- idiotsecant 5y agoThat is pretty neat. In your opinion was this workflow significantly different / better because the people directing your work had a DAO in the middle?
- exdsq 5y agoIt was fun but not terribly efficient. I can see it growing with things like Gitcoin for open source projects with treasuries. Saying this I’ve found it far quicker to get freelance work with crypto than more corporate gigs. Last corporate job I had for a one-off task took weeks to figure out how best to pay from a US client to a UK account!
- ac29 5y agoDid you pay taxes on it (income, and potentially capital gains)?
- endisneigh 5y ago> accepted by a governance council Lol. Why even bother?
- exdsq 5y agoWhat do you mean?
- endisneigh 5y agoIf a governance councils acceptance is required it defeats the purpose of a DAO to begin with
- exdsq 5y agoNot at all! Governance councils are elected for terms by stakeholders. You could remove that and just require everyone with a stake to vote and hope for 50% but this one didn’t
- endisneigh 5y agoSeems needless inefficient to me - if you’re going to use an elected body and fall back to simple majority the existing systems can already do it faster. Different strokes for different folks I suppose
- jtr1 5y agoFascinating! Would you be willing to share more context about this? Did the compensation seem commensurate with the work you put in? How feasible does it seem to generate a steady income this way?
- exdsq 5y agoThere’s lots of projects on Gitcoin that you can apply for that pay well but because of their design it’s a race to finish, which I don’t really enjoy. Compensation-wise, crypto as a domain pays very competitively! The DAO work was pretty good - fixed rate, fixed scope, normally bite sized chunks like adding an api endpoint to an open source project :)