How do you compare Iota with Ethereum. Ethereum ICO participants didn't bring in developers, the Foundation did.
No. Ethereum Foundation only took care of the core development, just like IOTA Foundation are doing with Java, C++, Rust and dev tools/libraries. They did have DEV Grants as well, which they funded with their 17% premine, IOTA had 0% premine. Therefore it is 100% the responsibility of the community to make this happen, the Foundation has absolutely nothing to do with that. Finally, you are 100% wrong regarding Ethereum ICO participants not bringing in developers, Christopher Lubin was the largest participant of Ethereum's crowdsale and brought in over 200 (!) developers and advisors under his ETH conglomerate 'ConsenSys'. Where else do you think Ethereum's success have come from? Of course it is through the right people giving other right people the right incentive to focus on the right things. How can it be that I have to explain this 3-4 times per week for the past year?
Is there a place where we holders can connect with developers wanting to work on IOTA apps? I don't know any IoT developers and I don't think you can assume that any holder or whale knows developers that want to work on Iota.
Given that we
literally told vacuous speculators to
fuck off months before the crowdsale even started and have repeated ad nauseam that this is how it is, I do indeed expect that the holders have plans of their own, yes. Of course.
I think it's a good initiative for the Foundation to setup a platform where developers can post ideas and whales can post bounties. If this already exists, then we should be posting about it frequently. To be honest, I think a lot of investors here know very little technically about IoT and need some guidance in terms of how to use their IOTA.
This has existed for months in the IOTA Slack under #bounties and same for the IOTA forum.
Lubin started a company (Consensys), and hired developers, not really the same thing as an ICO investor Anyway, Ethereum is way different that Iota, it's a smart contract platform designed specifically for apps to be built on top. Iota is machine to machine IoT, which is a very good target market, but I think it will be really frustrating for you if you expect Eth type participation at this point.