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 I'm convinced nobody wants to complete bounties for #Bitcoin

They just want to do their work and "hope" they get a donation from someone/some nonprofit

Idk what my total for outstanding bounties are (tens of millions of sats), not one has ever been completed and therefore paid out


Sad 
 New work force coming in hot 🥵 fren ! 👍🏾 just be patient:)  
 Is there a good place to post bounties at? 
 Search hashtag bounty, and check bounty labels on damus github.

I too have found that bounties don’t necessarily motivate devs to work on a particular product, or ticket.

I think devs are motivates by interest first and foremost, and longer term sats flow over one off bounties. 
 Yeah after years of prob about a whole coin of bounty offerings I have yet to pay out one single sat for even a half ass bounty completion 
 Where did you post your bounties? 
 Over the years its been on mainly socials like twitter, telegram and nostr. Very few on my old github for Zeus, mempool. space, etc, seedsigner, and others 

Clearlu nostr bounty discovery is the root of the problem here 
 What Zeus bounties have you put up? 
 In the past on traditional socials I posted for bounties (telegram, twitter, [now] nostr)
- coinjoin ability (know its not lightning)
- mobile channel rebalances (surprised we don't have this yet, no?)

Eh can't remember others.

You, Zeus, do the best to me by far of FOSS building with bounties as sat incentives to make Zeus better. I use you as a role model for open source bounty structure.  
 Cheers. More to come. 
 just add #bounties 
 have you tried posting on https://satshoot.com/ ?

maybe it's a discoverability issue 
 Good idea thank you  
 I had No idea you posted bounties. Where are they? Seriously never ever saw one, not even on Keet. You know you can post them there in chatrooms and its more likely they will be picked up? 
 Idk if I mentioned any to keet devs (surprised if not) but mainly on general old socials below👇

Bounty discovery is the clear issue here. I'll fix this 

nostr:nevent1qqsw32q6junl0m42m2d9m5shkdfnna6z9kjecv9n08chwnpqunhfqcqpz3mhxw309ucnydewxqhrqt338g6rsd3e9upzptssprfrjv9hwmqcpyhka26pujcflnelq0ekgxcmfehw82skd4mqqvzqqqqqqyshcush
 
 you can append #bounties to a nostr post or you can post on Keet. 

There's just a lot more engagement here for things like that here than on the trad social media. A lot trad is so dead i dgaf about them anymore. Not a place to look for active participants of any kind 
 Yes I've been adding hastags on old twitter years ago as well

I'm finding its more than just posting with a hastag; its full on marketing your bounty, which is just as much work (perhaps more) than just marketing my own projects