0 sats \ 6 replies \ @earnbitcoin 2 Feb 2023 \ on: Refactor and improve this Nostr Relay Scala class nostr
Bounties work great for the bounty issuer.
They don't always work so great for the bounty hunter. There could be two (or more) people working on solving this. Assuming one person provides a solution before any other valid solutions arrive, the bounty will be paid to the first hunter, and nothing is paid to the other(s) who may already have put in efforts towards this in hopes of obtaining the bounty award. The second solution provided might have been of better design and/or quality (thus why it took longer to complete), but a bounty is generally where the first to solve is the winner and the winner takes all.
On the flip side, hiring a freelancer (e.g., on Microlancer or Microlancer Services) might result in the deliverable taking longer, or it could run into the risk of non-completion (due to incompetence of the freelancer, or other issues).
But there's today few gigs / task work relative to the number of those with talent who are willing and able, so the bounty approach is likely the approach I too might choose in order to farm out the work for something like what OP is in need of.
Hm... an inherent problem with bounties in general. If the other people have their solutions posted in the replies, at least on stacker news it's easy for anyone to reward their favourite responses.
Clean bounties with no modifications have their perks though, their simplicity is valuable and has stood the test of time. Any modified version I think ought to be an optional setting.
One optional setting could be; "Top three bounty with some kind of distribution equal or 50/30/20 for instance" Then the top three bounty system could require the OP to select & rank three replies in order to do the bounty payout. Maybe a setup like that could even encourage more people to help?
Always interesting to explore new ideas and functions :)
Game Theory problems are fun.
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At the end of the day the simple approach is probably the best
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I agree with this.
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Replit tried to solve this with their bounties by opening them up to an application process first. One bounty, one hunter at a time. That seems effective to me.
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The downside of that is you don't get the benefit of parallel attempts. Another option could be the splitting of the reward to the best few, the lions share going to the best quality option. And all of these attempts would also prove the capabilities of the competitor, which could help in selecting a full time position for them, especially if the attempts being published of the multiple winners is part of the protocol.
Designing game theory systems that minimise downsides for all participants are the best puzzles. I live for it.
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With our model he can pay the bounty to multiple people if he chooses. Or a partial bounty to runner ups.
It doesn't eliminate all problems though. As you say, tradeoffs with all approaches, which is why we don't specify it ourselves.
Replit chooses a lock-in approach AFAIK, ie a chosen one is selected to work on it. A bounty hunter could say that in their bounty if they wanted.
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