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I don't fully understand your approach here, but I would like to. How is this different from individuals donating to people e.g. developing software via GitHub sponsors, or donating to artists they like on Patreon, or funding development of physical products on Kickstarter? The best answer I can come up with is that gitcoindao tries to ride the "DAO", "Web3", "decentralized" buzz words. Unless the goal is really to h…
It's not just crypto, and it's not just software. The grants round that opened today can be seen here: https://gitcoin.co/grants/#match-pools It includes grants for climate change and grants for longevity. To answer your question, the difference from kickstarter is that grants for public goods don't produce products - they produce public goods. It is possible to have many cynical takes, but if you scratch the surface…
There are Patreons that work like that, where the work being funded gets released publicly (for example, Evil Hat Games was releasing Fate RPG books as "pay what you want" downloads on RPGDriveThrough. Patrons just got early access and similar privileges). Reminiscent of the Street Performer Protocol: https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/1998/11/the_stree...