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Broadly speaking, I think that the Ethereum community is BUIDLing a world computer and open source financial system, and that ICOs are just the first killer app. I think there will be many more standards and killer dapps, and those with a long time horizon can/should keep their eyes on them as they emerge. I'm excited about ERC 721, 1081, and 1337 specifically. Specific to Gitcoin, we are privileged to have Joe Lubin / Consensys backing us.. so we don't need to make any moves on the funding side immediately. In an alternative universe in which we'd done an ICO, we'd have to spend a lot of our raise on regulatory compliance. And many hodlers of our token would be speculators. Given this wiggle room where we don't have to worry about funding, we've chosen to focus no product. And the members of our slack community are developers, not speculators. I cover this a little more in depth at : https://gitcoin.co/not_a_token https://medium.com/gitcoin/why-gitcoin-didnt-launch-with-a-token-f24af0b54ded
Hey Wang, Im a big fan of this maker time manager time blog post ( http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html ) I do calls on Tuesday/Thursday (manager time). MWF is for coding and generally jamming on deep work. (or.. more recently.. responding to zillions of slack/email questions, and coding time is pushed to nights after my kid goes to sleep or weekends)
Gitcoin is not a token! I knew I was going to get this question, but I had it coming since I named the project Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a place where you GIT coins, not a token itself. Checkout https://gitcoin.co/not_a_token Also checkout https://gitcoin.co/results -- we've distributed about $400k this year to OSS devs.
open source powers billions of dollars a year in economic activity yet has little to no financial support outside of corporate sponsorship. our mission is to grow and sustain open source. heres a little sales-ey page we typed up about this http://gitcoin.co/mission
Do you think with better projects have started to come to the Blockchain ecosystem? what do you mean by 'better'? What's your opinion on the current state of decentralised apps? i think we're in the first inning of a 9 inning game. its been forever since i played baseball, am i saying that right ? :) one thing that needs to improve is UX. theres too many steps to get fiat into ETH and to backup your seed phrase / etc. my friend and colleague, austin griffith, who just joined gitcoin as director of research, is working on this => https://twitter.com/austingriffith/status/1060926859116916737 one question i have is whether users will interact with their private keys or if itll all just be hidden behind a web 2.0 interface. will blockchain be in the front of a browser or in the back? will users have to learn key core primitives, like how when the web came around we learned about the back / home buttons... will users learn what a private key is and how to send coins right in their browser? do they care about decentralization?
i have a soft spot for metamask. they were the first wallet to get mass adoption, and i use their product every day. https://gitcoin.co/profile/metamask decentraland has done a few bounties with us and had some good success. i was initially worried that no one on the platform would have unity/VR skills, but i was pleasantly wrong about that! https://gitcoin.co/profile/decentraland and obviously, it's dope that the ethereum foundation itself has done bounties with us. whatever we can do to support them pushing the ecosystem forward is 💯 https://gitcoin.co/profile/ethereum