By paying them when they submit patches 

 With lightning of course 

 Subscriptions like Damus purple, Mutiny+ 

 What are the ways to fund open source devs? 

 Opensats. Or just paying them for their work. 

 Zaps ⚡️ 

 #Danstr 😁 

 I tend to use either bounties to try to incentivize what I want to see, or send lightning anonymously 

 As far as I can see, bounties don't work. Not the small ones and not the big ones. 

 Directly to your Wallet 🪙

Zap ⚡ 

 My favorite way to fund Bitcoin development is to make tax advantaged charitable donations to entities that issue grants. This ensures a double bonus of keeping more money out of the hands of the government.

https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/charity.html#developers 

 Heyyyyy thanks! 

 An address and BTCpay server 

 Treasure map with location of buried #Bitcoin private key. Lol

Mostly Lightning, OpenSats, and increasingly #zaps if I find them on Nostr.

I also try to buy things I need or want from them when that makes sense. Like parts for SeedSigner, for example.
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 Maybe my answer will sound as a stupid and naive answer but.. #zap on #Nostr 😅 

 Listening to RHR with @ODELL and @MartyBent on Fountain. V4V, with a cut to open source devs. 👌🏻 

 OpenSats foundation as created by ODELL...100% pass through and charitable  donation tax status....amazing.
WEN SAYLOR DONATE? 

 Never according to @ODELL himself. 

 bounties exclude those who are getting started

tenure is bad if it holds between projects (look at roasbeef's horrid record on btcd and lnd)

devs need to have a stack as soon as they can put one together

bounties are generally bad because of vagueness...

if you want to offer a bounty for some task, sit down with an architect and break that bounty down into milestones

if you want to pay to get stuff built, you should spend some effort first in making the task crystal clear

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 Lyn, perhaps you can help expand the discourse on this topic to deeper levels, given your background. 

Of course it’s important to fund open source devs. But probably Saylor has other concerns (perhaps like mine) maybe related to ossification, dev centralization, and how powerful technologies are being added to the protocol without a full assessment of their long term impact (eg. segwit and ordinals). 

We just witnessed how some malicious actor tried to get a back door into Linux via XZ utils.

More code means more bugs and we can’t just roll-back to an earlier version like centralized systems. 

We need to fund more security auditors and decentralize development. IMHO, we don’t need to fund more devs to “innovate” faster. 

 With Zaps 

 It's a tricky problem. Those who get money tend to get more of it. Those who have huge potential but don't know how to sell themselves end up flipping burgers.

And those good at coding might not be good at building a team that actually needs more funding. 

 I send ask for their lnurl and send them SATs directly 

 Subscriptions 
Zapping PR's or releases 
Opensats 

 Zapping @OpenSats 

@ODELL's new favorite way is publicly shaming Saylor into doing it 😂😈

Fr though I'm glad donating to devs is becoming more of a prominent talking point, and I appreciate how easy it is to do so through organizations like OpenSats 

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To me, the best way to fund open source devs is through sponsorship and donations from the community. This not only helps support the developers directly but also encourages a more collaborative and diverse environment within the open source projects.
``` 

 1. Contracts to implement something on their roadmap or something I need faster than the community will get around to doing it.
2. Liberapay
3. Open Collective
 

 Direct 

 Might be a bit naive, but GitHub makes it so easy to fund and keep track of sponsorship 

 I defer to Dan 

 Only Dans 🤣 

 Easiest way is zapping. 

 Either direct donations to devs who do work your value (but that requires following bitcoin development fairly closely and knowing who is doing what) or donating to dev funds like Open Sats and trusting they will allocate prudently. 

Ultimately, I would love to see a significant portion of bitcoiners tithe some portion of their annual income to open source dev funds. This is a religion, after all. 

 zaps 

 

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 Zaps 

 I like when for-profit companies encourage their devs to spend time reviewing, fixing bugs and shepharding improvements in the open source code that the company relies on.

For long term support of critical infrastructure like Bitcoin, ideally a broad base of the user community would provide enough funding to devs directly.  

 Directly to the person 

 ⚡ 

 Crime