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It's interesting that the funding for this came from the Zcash Community Grants. There's a lot of money involved with cryptocurrency and a lot of it gets invest
by AgentME 4y ago
It's interesting that the funding for this came from the Zcash Community Grants. There's a lot of money involved with cryptocurrency and a lot of it gets invested into the software involved. It's interesting that in this case, serious money got invested into some software that isn't strictly cryptocurrency-related and is useful outside of cryptocurrency. It makes me wonder if there are other software projects that are generally useful, including but not exclusively to cryptocurrency projects, that could benefit similarly from seeking funding from cryptocurrency projects. Even if one disliked cryptocurrency, this could be seen as getting money redistributed to more useful endeavors to benefit everyone.
- fyvhbhn 4y agoI think .attic has benefited from such an event as well: https://matrix.org/blog/2018/01/29/status-partners-up-with-new-vector-fueling-decentralised-comms-and-the-matrix-ecosystem https://matrix.org/blog/2018/01/29/status-partners-up-with-n...
- fyvhbhn 4y ago*matrix
- mccorrinall 4y agoiced-rs, a gui framework in rust, is sponsored by kraken. react-grid-layout is written and maintained by cofounder of bitmex. uWebSockets, one of the fastest ws servers, is mainly makelt afloat by crypto exchanges who make use of the author‘s consultancy service.
- celdon25 4y agoThat is probably because Zcash is a privacy tool that just happens to be a cryptocurrency. Snowden was one of the co-founders of the project. The users are people that rely on the security to stay out of prison, not crypto-bros trying to get rich quick.
- drexlspivey 4y agoSnowden was part of the initial ceremony, along with some other crypto experts. Not sure that qualifies him as co-founder
- celdon25 4y agoIt was a valuable contribution that gave the project a needed boost. The media used the word founder, so I went with that.