I've had this thought for a while. What if Bitcoin ABC would include their reward into the code? Something like this: 0.5% of all Bitcoin Cash, mined with Bitcoin ABC, goes to the ABC development team as a second transaction of every block (mined with the ABC client)? Think of it as "a license to use Bitcoin ABC for mining".
With the current price of ~$195 and after halving that would be 144 blocks/day * 365 days * 6.25 BCH/block * 195$/BCH * 0.5% ~ $320K/year, which should be enough to have 2-4 permanent team members (depending on their location in the world).
The reason is obvious: they are developing this software and it's a reasonable expectation to be compensated.
The benefits are obvious: we'll get a funded team without having to ask any companies to do it.
The downsides are less obvious. 1) Would miners' margins allow 0.5% to be shared? 2) Would miners leave and use competing software to mine without giving away 0.5%? 3) Should it be 1%? 0.25%?
Another added benefit might be that if ABC doesn't serve miners well, they could just leave for the alternatives
What are your thoughts?
(It will lead to a situation where we would have 0.5% less hash rate for the same buck, but realistically I think it makes no difference at all.)
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