[PREPROPOSAL] PoktFund 2022 LeanPOKT and Security Vulnerability Reimbursement

[ethen]

@shane

While PoktFund did give much to the community by developing PoktFund and help other support it (which should be reimbursed), PoktFund did use the knowledge gained from that work to create your own version of geo-mesh client in the summer which never was opened sourced. PoktFund used that work on v0 to beat out many providers and become is the top node provider today.

@shane

Would Poktblade walk away from his very successful hosting business to instead get his paycheck from the DAO? Is that something he wants? Or would Ramiro step away from POKTscan to only work for the DAO?

If they want to work full time for the DAO, then we would welcome a proposal that outlines what they will work on, what the milestones will be, and how there will be accountability. Hopefully PNF will help streamline all of this, but the first step is the dev needs to want to work for the DAO in a transparent manner.

You guys can’t flip flop on these things.

Doesn’t matter if they have companies with a substantial amount of $Pokt staked.

We want the best engineers working on the hardest problems.

@shane

POKTScan realized how top performing providers were doing it in the fall and opened it up to the whole community, despite the fact they could have kept it closed source to improve their own market share. Not sure then how we try to measure their lost opportunity if they were to submit a proposal.

You also can’t time this. Crypto moves fast. We had our own version of Geo-Mesh that maybe we wouldl have open sourced eventually. PoktScan beat everyone to it.

Pay the builders!!! All of them!!! LFG!!!