> I'm kind of curious to know if anyone has thought about this or is interested in funding this? I think we should distinguish between contributing work vs con

> I'm kind of curious to know if anyone has thought about this or is interested in funding this? I think we should distinguish between contributing work vs contributing money. Contributing open source and governance work is a socially rewarding and career-furthering activity. Contributing money (eg. computing resources) is almost always a rip-off. Open source contributions and community work are great things and advance humanity. BOINC [2] is also a great example how volunteering computing resources can further science. The issue with contributing computing resources is that it drains the donor's economic resources without granting a tax rebate, but the recipient can use the resources to generate money for them. Bitcoin, TOR [1] and Bittorrent are such examples where participants volunteer computing resources which others profiteer off. Since, I think, we agree on the work contribution part, let's focus only on the money contributions to such a system. You'd eliminate resource abuse with a system where participants: - contribute _spare_ computing resources - are rewarded with credits - can redeem those credits for future computing resources or currency This system could be run by a central governance body or on a decentralised block chain. [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/ [2] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ https://boinc.berkeley.edu/