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Re:Sponsoring Open Source Developers by phoinix on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:02PM (#25434411)
Well if a company wants to give a large sum of money to an open source project for a feature, say a hundred dollars, or a thousand then it is the same. Electronic cash, i.e. bitcoin work better than the traditional ways of payment when there is a necessity for crowdfunding a little bit of money less than a penny, a 1/10 of a penny or 1/100, or 1/1000, from thousands of users. The reason bitcoin works better in that case, is because bitcoin is absolutely automated while in traditional payment systems a human is required to oversee the payments in case there is a fraud somewhere. That means a human is required to be paid, and humans are expensive to employ. That increases the cost of every transaction, as well as increases the minimal amount of the transferable value.
Re:Sponsoring Open Source Developers by sova on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:14PM (#25434593)
>That increases the cost of every transaction, as well as increases the minimal amount of the transferable value.

You seem to be blissfully unaware of transaction fees in bitcoinland

Re:Sponsoring Open Source Developers by phoinix on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:20PM (#25434689)
The electronic money that are known now as bitcoin, took a different turn from the white paper of Satoshi. That's why i said the electronic cash Bitcoin, not the currency Bitcoin. Some people wanted to take that electronic cash idea, and turn it into currency. That's a bad idea.
Re:Sponsoring Open Source Developers by sova on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:56PM (#25438518)
So... you're talking about something that doesn't exist
Re:Sponsoring Open Source Developers by phoinix on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:48AM (#25441110)
Well when bitcoin first started, i didn't have any transaction fees. Afterwards the protocol changed, forks did happen, and confusion ensued. However some programs start to emerge, about incentivizing social media users to post good content[1]. And of course open source developers should be incentivized by their users to fix the bugs, implement popular features that theirs users want etc. So some things start to happen, well mainstream adoption is a little bit far, but it will happen eventually.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/social-media-platforms-for-cr...

Re:Sponsoring Open Source Developers by sova on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:49AM (#25452953)
The most promising project on that list is no longer available: https://honest.cash/
Re:Sponsoring Open Source Developers by 35fbe7d3d5b9 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:13PM (#25435330)
"I have a hammer, who needs something nailed?"