Tom Morris on Nostr: Every so often, someone proposes a cryptotoken-based reward protocol to compensate ...

Every so often, someone proposes a cryptotoken-based reward protocol to compensate (generally unpaid) contributors to volunteer-driven projects like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap or the free/open source community.

Here is a case study in how this creates an entirely predictable Hacktoberfest-style spam burden for the open source developers such projects allegedly seek to help. ('Allegedly' because the noble intentions of cryptopushers are almost always a smokescreen.)

https://connortumbleson.com/2024/02/26/the-disappointing-tea-xyz/