Topic: Is funding a development team really that difficult? - page 2. (Read 2372 times)
Conformal Systems has no trouble funding a team larger than the active "Core Dev" team, and yet theirs is the team that nobody wants to talk about.
fed fud
http://www.coindesk.com/mike-hearn-underfunding-leaving-bitcoin-development-crisis/
"I’ve been very worried for a long time that the core bitcoin system is radically underfunded and underdeveloped from where it needs to be."
If what Mike Hearn says is true, and I see no reason why it wouldn't be, than there's almost no development going on with Bitcoin anymore.
We're almost at a complete stand still. Only really Gavin doing anything meaningful.
In Mike's own words, it's a bit of a crisis. And he's not the only one... devs have been worried for a long time. This article is from February:
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-core-development-falling-behind-warns-mike-hearn/
Why, why, why isn't anyone stepping in to fund development? Where are the Winklevoss, Branson, anyone!
Don't they have any interest in protecting their investment? Or are they completely clueless as to the current state of things?
From the above article: "It would help if some of them gave something back, complains Garzik. “In general, I am disappointed at the large number of bitcoin companies that contribute nothing back to the original open source project, the software that runs the network we all use."
In the meantime, second gen alts are being more actively worked on than Bitcoin. How in the world is it possible for Bitcoin to be at a near stand still while much smaller players are hard at work improving their protocols? Do they have more resources? A better, more engaged community? What?
"I’ve been very worried for a long time that the core bitcoin system is radically underfunded and underdeveloped from where it needs to be."
If what Mike Hearn says is true, and I see no reason why it wouldn't be, than there's almost no development going on with Bitcoin anymore.
We're almost at a complete stand still. Only really Gavin doing anything meaningful.
In Mike's own words, it's a bit of a crisis. And he's not the only one... devs have been worried for a long time. This article is from February:
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-core-development-falling-behind-warns-mike-hearn/
Why, why, why isn't anyone stepping in to fund development? Where are the Winklevoss, Branson, anyone!
Don't they have any interest in protecting their investment? Or are they completely clueless as to the current state of things?
From the above article: "It would help if some of them gave something back, complains Garzik. “In general, I am disappointed at the large number of bitcoin companies that contribute nothing back to the original open source project, the software that runs the network we all use."
In the meantime, second gen alts are being more actively worked on than Bitcoin. How in the world is it possible for Bitcoin to be at a near stand still while much smaller players are hard at work improving their protocols? Do they have more resources? A better, more engaged community? What?
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