&gt; There are better ways to handle governance in OSS and cryptocurrency then founding a private enterprise<p>First, only one core developer with commit access, Pieter Wuille, is affiliated with Blockstream. Yes - the fact that founders of Blockstream are PhDs in distributed systems and cryptography, and the fact that many of them have authored essential elements of the Bitcoin system like libsecp256k1 gives them a purely meritocratic sway over developer mindshare, and for good reason.<p>Second, according to your words here you&#x27;ve done the impossible - you&#x27;ve finally figured out how to handle all money issues in open source projects. Gosh, that&#x27;s really something. Don&#x27;t just leave us hanging like that, do divulge what you think is the optimum way to ensure highly skilled developers and researchers work on open source projects for free.