Pre-Proposal - POKTscan Geo-Mesh Reimbursement

[shane]

@deblasis

I should probably clarify that what bugged me particularly was the amount of POKT in question.

Much thanks on this clarification. I think this is a very valid point, for both this proposal and the PoktFund LeanPOKT proposal for 7M POKT.

I personally am glad to hear v1 contributors join these conversations, as all contributors should be treated equally in the DAO. This was actually my central point, when LeanPOKT was asking for $2M prior to releasing their work.

Below was my primary point

@shane

Reason 1

While an innovative client is worth rewarding, we can’t disproportionately reward client work from 3rd parties over the innovations of core-devs. The reason more the core-dev team has not been pushing for more v0 client work is because they are focused primarily on v1 . If the value of a new v0 client is worth $2M, then why would core-devs be motivated to work for PNI on v1? This would signal that two months of development on v0 outside of PNF is worth a 10 year salary.

NOTE: I meant PNI, not PNF above.

This is very much why I believe there should be structures in place to evaluate the value of proposals. We do not want core devs to be underpaid compared to high rewards being given to other contributors. We don’t want a feature being added by a dev at PNI to be a Tuesday at work, while feature from another individual out of PNI being a multi-year salary.

In the past, many core contributors were POKT OGs, so they had bags of varying degrees. Now, many contributors to v1 are not OGs and are being vested over time their POKT (which is what PEP-49 was all about). Now that PNI, and v1 team particularly, is a lot of newer contributors, we need to be prudent to how we reward some contributors over others.

This is why a value model is important IMO. It takes the guess work out “why should this contribution be valued more than another” because the value is tied to tangible metrics. I’ve been a part of DAOs outside of POKT and this conversation about value ALWAYS comes up

@poktblade

Yes, a bit weird given your organization was given a lucratively amount of POKT from initial token genesis, PNF, and the DAO from the early beginnings.

All funds went into the POKT ecosystem, unless there is something I’m missing. You may have different beliefs on HOW those funds should have been spent, but they were spent on growing the ecosystem. Also, PNI’s first proposal for funds from the DAO was PEP-49 as far as I know.

Regardless of one’s belief on how funds were used to grow the POKT ecosystem, it’s a valid point IMO that we find balance in with our incentive models.

@deblasis

Would it be weird if that was coming from a V1 dev? Yes? What if I used an alias?

Valid point as well and something we want to avoid.

I think it is absolutely fair to compensate a company like POKTScan for work, as they weren’t operating on funds already from the ecosystem (as @poktblade alluded too PNI given early POKT). Finding the right value balance is important, so that companies are inventive to contribute to important parts of the ecosystem, because their time will be compensated, like a contractor.