Where in that post did I mention fairness?
I'll say it again. If you want a direct financial payback for your work, just buy coins, and then work to make them worth more. It's maybe "not fair" that you got in early and cheap, but I fail to see any reason that model doesn't work.
A desire to preserve fairness or live up to some lofty ideal are the only reasons I can see for the Monero team not having several hundred thousand XMR set aside for development. A clever individual could have found a way to acquire these coins, and then you could have even preserved the image by funneling them into the donation address. It is an anonymous coin, after all
You mean clever like Evan? That's not coming back on his coin at all
Also, are you just ignoring ArticMine's FinCen observation or just don't understand that an IPO type launch could DOOM Developers who used this type of tactic to raise funds? I like my Devs free form controversy and governmental investigation. Your selfish-idealism may prove to be the bigger hampering to any long-term project in crypto.
Also, is the fact that the best, biggest and most successful cryptocurrency project was/is being carried out in the same manner as Monero lost on you? Bitcoin may have technological limitations when it comes to privacy and scaling, but the launch and development are the biggest success in an e-cash ever. Whatever works, works.
The only reason there's not several hundred thousand monero set aside for development is because #1: the monero core team didn't launch the coin, so they couldn't have snuck in (or implemented) anything to the code to set aside these funds... and furthermore, I agree with some of the other posts that your disappointment misses the boat concerning the whole purpose of Monero's existence, which was a fairly launched cryptonote coin with a bitcoin-like emission schedule - it was launched in direct opposition to the Bytecoin scam.
But dude, i totally get you - we're holding on to this great technology that needs a fair amount of work to become "perfect", and if you're like me (i.e., you can't code) its like "gaaahhhh!!! how do we make this move faster!!!" And one of the obvious solutions is "well of course throw money on it"
but then of course there's this
"We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane"
But yes, unfortunately we can't guarantee the many hodlers of Monero will donate to Core development. The dice incident is a sure indication that people would rather put their money where returns are tangible than into the blackbox of core development (hence the new funding mechanism) or the blind hope of a random developer.
I wish we could figure out the multisig thingy so we could make an "investment bond" or whatever. Wasn't there some time lock that could be useful?
