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S/O to @k00b for helping me plan this out and put it together!

My original idea for bounties was a bit more regulated and complex (escrowing bounties, requiring community engagement to determine the winner of the bounty, etc) but we whittled it down to being simple, open, and permissionless.



Still there’s some game theory to figure out and some vulnerability to sybil attacks with this first implementation so I would love to hear people’s thoughts on how to mitigate that in the future without being too heavy handed.

@k00b, I'm a bit surprised that the implementation doesn't have more incentives for the OP who offers the bounty to follow through and pay once someone has helped.

As I was reading the post, I was expecting at some point that you would describe that the bounty money goes to some escrow, or basically is taken away from the OPs balance, and OP can't get it back. That way, OP is motivated to actually give it away to a good child comment.

The only drawback I see to this is that, if OP asks for something and no one delivers, the OP would have to part way from his sats without getting his request fulfilled. The only option that comes to mind to counter this would look like this: instead of have the entire bounty be taken away from OP forever, make a part of it refundable. This basically enables a gradient in the trade-off between the two extreme options (fully escrowed bounty vs no escrow at all).

Just thank you for these grandiose further developments to a more than incredible example of how a community platform promotes good virtues.

This is a killer feature!! Nice work, guys. I can see this being used in a lot of different ways, e.g.

Personally, I'm interested in using this for a website re-design and helping portfolio companies find the right hires

Super awesome. You can call this feature “Stacker Overflow”.

Man. I don’t even know what to say other than; Good fucking job.

All the work you and everyone else has done and is still doing on this platform is by far the most impressive of any content delivering/news feed platform. I do wish though, you would do something about the amount of misinformation and flat out lies I see being spewed on here on a daily basis. Fortunately, I am smart enough to do my own research when needed and can determine what is factual and what is not. Unfortunately, a good amount of individuals just believe the lies and misinformation without digging deeper. That's the main issue the United States faces today.

This is a great way for the OP to ask a question and reward the best answers. Could also be great to post tasks, for example, first 100 people to retweet this tweet (link) and then post your retweet link in the comments gets XX sats etc. Away for the OP to boost their social media posts. Im sure there will be tons of other things that this can be useful for!

Brilliant.

I very much like how SN is prioritising quality over quantity, signal over noise.

Oh this is cool– Incentives now point to quality of comments, not just content. This is the incentive dynamic that gives StackOverflow immense value via their reputation system.

Great job for spotting than, and great job on shipping it. Looking forward to seeing how this changes dynamics!

This is amazing! Looking forward to posting my first bounty.

Tip of the hat to all who worked on this feature. Thank you.

Really cool stuff! I don't want the bounty of this post.

Sick feature! In the future, will be so cool when plebs can earn enough to work from home just from their contributions to SN. Great job @k00b, @bitcoinplebdev, @ToshiMoto on continually increasing the value for SN users! Can't wait to start using bounties 💰

Love the bounties!

Great idea! This will make it much easier to reward thoughtful comments and engagement on posts. It's exciting to see new features like this being added to the platform. Thanks to @bitcoinplebdev and @ToshiMoto for their hard work in making this happen!

I would say this is a really nice addition to SN. I can see some good use cases for it.

good job

hmm, will be interesting to see what effect this has on the site overall.

I'll probably work on site speed the rest of the week. Site has been kind of laggy for me lately.

Congrats, guys! I know how hard yall have been working on this. 🤘 Would be cool for everyone to hear the back story on how @bitcoinplebdev started contributing to SN.

Also nice bag design @ToshiMoto

Prices go up, prices go down the volatility is here and sometimes you might feel like a clown, but do not worry stay your ground, Sats will stay the same amount. Anywhere you go , anywhere you are... 21 millions, forever.

Where is the bounties filter?

awesome

Very cool, i'm sure we'll see a bunch of interesting ways plebs will use this now go forth and bounty up yall

Thank you