Here is what I don't understand. I thought that with DVC, 95% of all coins go to the developers. So who are these developers and why aren't they coming up with the funds to do this?
Darn it we have to improve the wording on all docs and ads and marketing copy and so on, tons of people seem to keep thinking the 90% of the coins, the coins sent out to artists, musicians, coders, authors, hardware designers, rocket scientists (once market cap is high enough) and so on and so on and so on who work on (aka "develop") free open source hardware, music, art, literature, programs, spaceships (when our market cap is high enough) somehow means the coders who coded devcoin get 90% of the coins.
That is a totally bogus perception, and maybe totally eradicating the use of the word "developer" in all the text/ads/etc might be required, but however we do it we need to somehow make absolutely clear that 90% of the coins go to people who work on various free open source projects, hopefully not just projects like a free open source spaceship you can print with a 3d printer, not even just projects like that and a free open source printer to print it with, not even just projects like that and free open source formulae and production techniques for making the "inks" used by such printers, but also cool projects such as trying to make the "autodoc" described in Larry Niven's "Ringworld" milieu, that would be an awesome project, if you aren't familiar with Ringworld then maybe you have seen the Stargate series, an "autodoc" is similar to the "sarcophagus" the bad guys use except that the autodoc tries also to keep people sane instead of trying to turn them into megalomaniac sociopathic psychopaths...
Also, it is 90%, not 95%.
It was planned to change to 95% upon merged mining becoming a reality, but miners are so greedy and so filled with a sense of "entitlement" that we left it at 90% even when we did implement merged mining. (Maybe miners use sarcophagi instead of autodocs? If so, all the more need to get our market cap up so we can start financing autodocs as well as spaceships (and, of course, holodecks, gotta have holodecks...))
-MarkM-