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. ⌨️
