Interesting letter from Coindesk backing into Bitcoin's development costs at $100-$200MM a year... which is insane to me. They get there by taking the number of total developers on bitcoin-related protects (circa 1,000) and multiplying by $100k-$200k... feels very high to me.

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/02/23/can-bitcoin-afford-to-maintain-its-core-network-coindesk/

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There are Bitcoin developers that are worth $200,000 a year (and they should get funding) but lumping everyone who has a commit on bitcoin or a bitcoin-adjacent project into a group of people who should earn $200,000 for their efforts is a bit sweeping