JD, let’s get one thing straight: you have done more than enough for this community already, and we can’t thank you enough. You’re not getting paid, so you shouldn’t feel pressured to deliver at a higher standard than you already have, nor should you feel like you have to work on this stuff unpaid.
For now, I still stand by what I wrote a year ago, specifically this part:
I must acknowledge that since I posted that, I’ve had several discussions with IF members, and they have listened (for the most part). Since then, this governance forum was created, Phylo started leading these efforts full-time from the IF side, the legal department started providing more support, Firefly started working again on further empowering the community with on-chain voting, etc.
However, the work is not done yet. It’s still the IF’s responsibility to manage all this imho, at least until we have a full-time team, since they are the ones in control of the Treasury tokens anyway.
This vote for a full-time team was a brilliant initiative (largely thanks to you, Phylo & others), and I agree it might be a turning point, but only if we elect people who are qualified and capable of doing the job.
It’s not just difficult - it’s virtually impossible. You can’t attract great talent to work on this stuff unpaid, that’s just not how the world works. For me personally, at any given time there’s a handful of projects I follow that would benefit from my time and support, so it’s not possible to justify sinking countless unpaid hours on this project when I could instead be getting paid top dollar to work on a different one (which coincidentally might also be less risky or less stigmatized than IOTA, which has yet to redeem itself).
In retrospect, I’d say I’ve been more than generous with my time & support over the 5 and a half years I’ve been around, as have you & many others in our community.
Now with this Treasury initiative there’s finally a rare opportunity to get me engaged full-time (or at least 40 hrs/mo). Let’s wait and see if the community is interested. Until then, I’ll be keeping an eye on developments, but I can’t justify sinking hundreds of unpaid hours into this - which is the level of hours I’d have to sink into this if I were to take us to the next level.