We can fund open source software at scale with #callatax.
See the "Open Source Software and Bug Bounties" use case here:
https://catallax.network/use-cases#open-source-software-and-bug-bounties
Discussion
You're gunna end up with the oracle problem. This is our biggest problem on nostr, not because it's technically hard, but because we are mostly the type of people who are trustless assholes.
IMO we need more agents/bots doing nonsense stuff around nostr to build up a relationship
Reputation *
what do you mean? which Oracle problem in this context? in the FOSS example, the project maintainer IS the oracle.
in the simpler/abstract use cases, it relies on trust and reputation (natural reputation at first, then subjective, computed reputation later when GrapeRanknis ready).
"we're trustless assholes", sure, but are you really going to tell me that if nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpzdmhxue69uhkzmr8duh82arcduhx7mn9qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcam28zl acts as an escrow and project arbiter, you won't trust him to not rug? be honest. trust and reputation work, even now with our primitive reputation tools.
I think many have misunderstood how Bitcoin restores the market of trust. The goal isn’t to remove all trust and have distrusted adversarial conditions in every market interaction. To the contrary, society is *built on* trust.
Corrupted money erodes trust between entities that are **actually being honest.** that’s the real problem, is that if you and I trust each other, we are still getting screwed by a third party abusing OUR trust for their benefit. Trustless money allows us to have control over our trusted networks and interactions again. It lets you and I do business without being subject to anyone else.
In short, trust is not a bad thing. A trustless foundation lets us build long term relationships of trust with better paths back to safety when things go wrong, and better control over who we associate with and accept risk on behalf of. It allows us to properly VALUE trust.
Great point. Society needs foundational components to build different layers of trust. No value exchange exists which is not somewhere on a gradient of trust.