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I see such behavior from time to time but feels off-taste IMHO. It's almost as if would be more professional if they worked with the Italian mafia to coerce for payment(not that I approve such thing). If contract broken, sue them. Why throwing a scene?
and doesn’t involve physical violence like the mafia
A message like this on a client website doesn't do what you think it's going to do.
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Believe it or not, it’s prime daylight hours across most of the US sitting at their desks browsing HN.
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“Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.” — https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Believe it or not, it’s prime daylight hours across most of the US sitting at their desks browsing HN.
Not even read. Posted. That means they had to refresh exactly at that moment, within a second of it being posted, scroll down the page to that comment, read it, and downvote it, in 4 seconds! Come on
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Because as soon as you said Cryptocurrency, you lost the plot.
Everything you said is literally how freelancing already works. You pay a certain amount upfront, and then pay more based on deliverables.
> Cryptocurrency is the right fit here because you want it to be tied to something the client can’t just mint unlimited amounts of
Can you tell me how to mint unlimited amounts of US Dollars? I would love this hack.
> just another use of cryptocurrency that properly aligns everyone’s incentives and prevents legal disputes through continuity instead of abruptness
How does a blockchain determine whether I built the site the owner wanted?
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The substance seems very silly to me. Even if businesses were well versed in using crypto and it didn't have such a scam reputation it's still silly to me. Using a cryptocurrency blockchain for any of this, let alone all of this, lands squarely in the realm of what the haters brand as "a solution looking for a problem".
I see such behavior from time to time but feels off-taste IMHO. It's almost as if would be more professional if they worked with the Italian mafia to coerce for payment(not that I approve such thing). If contract broken, sue them. Why throwing a scene?
because social shaming is faster and cheaper than the legal system and doesn’t involve physical violence like the mafia
We haven't heard the other side of the argument, have we? Maybe it's not as simple as services delivered payment withheld.
As much as I want to side with the developers I think they are exposing themselves to legal repercussions and made their situation worse.