Some kind of protection is needed.
Maybe opening fund for holding BTC as a safe deposit, for certain amount of time.
After that they could receive BTC back.
PS
Developers who have zero 0 bitcoins ... are most likely scammers... or dreamers ... or lost track in crypto
Protection? Hah, what is this place to become, people to hold your hand to make decisions? Protect you from the boogie men?
Government regulation next???
You can't protect people from making mistakes.Scammers will always scam, entry barrier or not. It is just a barrier, a whimsical one.
All it will do is raise the scamming barrier to new highs (waiting longer before exit scamming, etc)
My objective point is still valid no matter what your subjective belief about people who have 0 BTC:
You are proposing to blanket-punish genuine people who have 0 BTC to start new projects, for the actions of scammers.