He has not ever offered to pay me, nor has he ever discussed this being a position under the wide umbrella of his funding. I would hesitate to say that any of this should fall under that given the amount that the team already shoulders, cost-wise, on behalf of the chain in entirety. In previous years, he and others actually were indicative that they would be okay with me potentially doing the legwork on a proper legal foundational mechanism with which to potentially transfer developer or salaried payments under. For a number of reasons that wasn't something that was widely appreciated as viable, so creation of a DUNA or similar wasn't something that was pushed heavily as the community's desires for me to pursue.

I think what a lot of this comes back to is that I put off making a proposal for many years, including literally shutting down ones that were made by others on my behalf and listened to the bulk of people who said they'd much prefer funding someone who shows up and does work afterwards in terms of shaping how I then committed to approaching this all. Quite a few really wanted me to do yearly proposals with an arbitrary salary number. In hindsight, that would have been very easy fund collection on my behalf with even less accountability than surfacing this now, so for those who are feeling all I'm doing is some form of revenge ask on Hive it sort of takes the wind out of the sails a fair bit.

There's a perception being spread by a few quietly that I'm hysterical, extractive, have never accomplished anything, or actively trying to abuse the DHF, which seems to have the desired outcome of causing me to crash out or leave over whatever happens or is said here. That's simply not what will happen, and I'm gathering that it comes heavily from both previous people doing exactly that, and some personal insecurities being projected on me. I'm being open and honest about my current capabilities, what the road ahead looks like, and how hard I can push for the next say.... two or so years with the full time effort people are very happy to ask me for behind closed doors, but not publicly on chain. I see absolute no issue at all with anyone of any stake size coming here and being absolutely incensed that I dared to make this post and reading me to filth over it— that's the entire point of the DHF. None of it is personal (well, maybe it is for one or two people, lol) and if it doesn't pass, then that's okay.

The bulk of reactions now are about the timing, and they're valid reactions. The timing for me is also valid, so we're all justified in hashing it out publicly. If the proposal had been the same amount but for a one year salary of some sort, I don't doubt the responses would look similar because the issue at this point is very little about pay, and more accurately about the fear and market sentiment. I can't do much about that, other than to state "hey, I genuinely can't meet the increasing expectations and asks people have of me going forward unless I go full time, so rather than try to demand a salary, I can use what I've done to lay groundwork for another few years. If not, I go back into corpo world and do my best to keep my output here at the level it is with no guarantees." And both of those things are a-ok to be committed to the chain and part of the discussion!