<DiegoSalazar[m]> "in my view, keeping the protocol..." <- Good point. Also, building ecosystem is the best way of funding development. Funding should come from people who depend on Monero, who built businesses around it, preferably in the form of anonymous donations. When this relationship is reversed and the project starts to depend on some "foundation" or some other entity that gives grants or hires devs, it's dead.

I wonder if we could impose a goodwill tax on the profits of Monero ecosystem companies. They promise to send a percentage of their pre/post-tax profits (preferably from published accounts) back into the CCS/general fund. I know this happens to some extent already, and thinking about it more maybe formalising that process would lead to some uncertain liabilities on their part.

Does anybody know how frequent will luigi1111 be online?

all the time except for when I'm not

luigi1111w: when merges

.soon

<luigi1111w> "all the time except for when I'm..." <- Hello, did you see my message?

> <@luigi1111w:libera.chat> all the time except for when I'm not

* Did you see my private message?

no

luigi1111w: I pm you again, could you please have a look

<midipoet> "I wonder if we could impose a..." <- Tax is not a good idea, even though it might allow ecosystem to grow. As soon as you introduce dev tax, you become no better, than corporate entity/government, that basically "hires" devs, since they aare not being community funded, but tax funded. Community and devs need to make themselves known among businesses and that will allow some of them to donate for development.