# What is better than bounties and grants?

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What is better than bounties and grants? The experience with bounties from HRF wasn't great. No one has answered to the calls for implementing what they wanted because the work was too much and the risk of not getting paid very real. The experience with grants in general from Spiral is also not great: many random developers making cool but useless projects, wasted money. The two kinds of open-source financial support that have worked so far are: Paying people who are already doing useful work so they can continue doing that. That is the experience of some people who are "maintaining" Bitcoin C

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Created: 2026-10-23T06:43:52.638856+00:00

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