We’ve been working on the bounty daily. Canceling it would kill the developer traction I’ve got going (1 guy on UI, 1 guy integrating UI into backend, & 1 guy coding the backend for repo storage). We’re each working on a different part of the project and it was even enough to get Robin from ZeroSync to make Sats4File — a new cryptographic scheme for trading sats for files/repos off-chain over Lightning, like an atomic smart contract. 
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At this point, we’re going to finish building it either way… really hope you don’t cancel it though! We’ve got quite a motivated team.
You should just open it all up and build it in the open, nostr not bluesky, ppl want to help you and review I’m sure
I agree…
We were only hesitant to open up until we were further along because it would be easy for someone to steal our code & make a poorer functioning version to claim the bounty before we completed it.
It was a financial competition afterall, so we had to act accordingly.
If you develop in the open it’s clear to all who did what work, with zaps the value flow can start immediately from those you deliver value to.
#[2] you did incentive something, but you’re right to think harder about if it was the correct thing, maybe grants to promising teams and devs who are making progress to the goal.
I’d love to sit down and discuss how this works in-depth if they’re interested. If we had some coders at square/spiral help us, we could definitely move faster. ⌨️