There are a lot of initiatives in the Bitcoin space which I feel need more funding, and if I am going to support them, I would rather do so by contributing a certain amount on a regular basis as part of a larger group of people, and have a dedicated team decide on worthy projects to fund, rather than trying to find individual projects myself and put up a bounty when I find one, and hope others will join me.
I see mining pools as the ideal place to pool resources for this type of collective effort. I was wondering if anything like a charitable pool existed, and if not, what others thought about the idea of creating one?
What I would like to see is a pool that takes 3 percent profit for themselves, donates 5 percent to Bitcoin-related projects, and leaves 93 percent for the miner.
Some initiatives I would like to see funded:
Bitcoin bounties for information leading to the arrest of scammersThis one in particular pissed me off as I upvoted the original submission made in /r/bitcoin by the scammer, thinking it was a legitimate business:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rre79/fucking_fuck_im_going_to_be_so_pissed_off_if_a/Here's the scammer's submission:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rpbpn/i_have_convinced_my_uncle_to_move_online_with_his/I would pay to have a dedicated Bitcoin investigative team that goes after scammers.
A privacy oriented Bitcoin walletPerhaps Darkwallet. Perhaps a version of Bitcoin-QT that uses CoinJoin by default.
Funding Bitcoin core developersThere's only one full-time paid developer. It'd be nice if there was more funding of the core devs given so much rests on their work
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That's all I can think of right now, but I'm certain there are many more areas where there are opportunities to fund projects that would really boost Bitcoin.
Thoughts?
