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I wholeheartedly agree that the problems Tea mentions do need to be solved, I maintain several large-ish OSS projects; it's not easy, takes a lot of effort. Un

I wholeheartedly agree that the problems Tea mentions do need to be solved, I maintain several large-ish OSS projects; it's not easy, takes a lot of effort. Unfortunely, anything with crypto kinda just flops. Crypto was a decent idea, but there were too many uneducated people who didn't know what it was, and now it's turned into this dumpster fire. I think another problem is also how no crypto project actually explains how it helps. Sure, I'm all in if I can earn some money for maintaing my OSS, but how does that work? What are the details? Literally every crypto thing just does some hand-waving and says, "don't worry 'bout it, it'll just work magically, trust me".

MBCook 3y ago
Bingo. Where does the money come from? So developers just sign up to get paid and it magically appears somehow? This doesn’t make any sense from the start. You were more optimistic about crypto than I was. Every project I see try to use it just seems to scream either grift or naïveté. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that the immediate thing that happened was a bunch of people wanting free “money” tried to get it without any actual work.
- ambigious7777 3y ago
  When the stuff was announced, I liked the concept of being able to just like send someone money, sort of like wiring but way easier. What I didn't like is that only maybe 3 people out of 200 people really knew what was going on. 100 of those people were people screaming that it was good, "haters just gonna hate". 90 of those people are marketing people who use magic words[0] to say that the product is good. And the remaining 7 are clueless investors. [0]: <https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/ https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/>