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From the gitcoin footer: Gitcoin is a platform where you get paid to work on open source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, Des
by tauwauwau 4y ago
From the gitcoin footer:
Gitcoin is a platform where you get paid to work on open source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, Design, and more.
I'm assuming that payment is in some crypto token/currency.
- malermeister 4y agoThat sentence sounds good! But why was it hidden all the way down in the footer? Why was the rest of the page vacuous marketing copy that made my brain turn off? And why does any of that need cryptocurrency? Grants for open source work have been around before cryptocurrency even existed.
- tauwauwau 4y agoYes, I remember reading about this site on Hacker news post. There are a lot of search results here for gitcoin. Also, Product dropdown at the top shows what it does. Payment in crypto coins seems to be free from a lot of regulatory burden, I'm not saying that it's a good thing, but it's just there. Getting a crypto wallet is also a lot simpler than creating a bank account, I'm again in favor of KYC norms, but there's an appeal to it, if you're too young or because of some other reason you cannot get a bank account.
- meheleventyone 4y ago> Payment in crypto coins seems to be free from a lot of regulatory burden The key word there is seems, you’ll probably find a lot of jurisdictions require you to report receiving payment through crypto.