Strong opinion, loosely held

For an open source protocol that aims to be credibly neutral, paid bounties work for small tasks but something like an open source client is better if organically built (as a labor of love) and then receives a retroactive public goods type funding.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

IMO that is the best way to do public goods funding in general:

* Private sector free to take risk and compete mercilessly to find product market fit
* Public sector then makes neutral infra -> better market for all
* If instead public sector leads, infra in monopolized -> no further development (or no fit at all)