Ask HN: Is a cryptocurrency for funding community projects a viable idea?

Re:Ask HN: Is a cryptocurrency for funding community project... by slimshady94 on Monday November 06, 2017 @05:14PM (#15639478)

I wonder if crypto-tokens could be used as an easy way of quantifying open source contributions? Famous GitHub projects could assign and pay their own custom tokens (not exchangeable for money, permanently tied to an identity), on the basis of issues and PRs. It would also be easy for developers to link these tokens on their resume while applying for jobs. The proof-of-PR token could even be used to skip interviews altogether.

All these ideas seem pretty low-hanging fruit for cryptocurrencies.

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Re:Ask HN: Is a cryptocurrency for funding community project... by BjoernKW on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:03AM (#15641692)

Git already provides a proof-of-PR with its commit history. You can have a look at someone's GitHub profile so see the projects that person has contributed to.

While it's not a permanent record you'd have to go to great lengths to permanently delete someone's effort from the record. You could also still keep the repositories for yourself on some local machine as a permanent record.

The permanent, tamper-proof record feature of blockchains only provides a significant benefit if many or all players in the game have an incentive to tamper with the data in the first place.

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