Persistent, platform-wide work that simply can't be replaced deserves to be recognized. This is making things right.

Yes, I created the #0 Return Proposal, the mechanism that sets the funding threshold for the DHF. And no, this proposal is not core development. But it is one of those rare exceptions where non-core-dev work delivers platform-wide benefits that every single user and stakeholder takes for granted.

As a stakeholder, this is a no-brainer for me. I need what she's doing. The chain needs what she's doing.

Run the math. 90000 HBD over six years is roughly 1250 a month. For a role that nobody else volunteered for, nobody else came close to filling, and nobody else is lining up to take over. Given what we're getting for that amount, it's dirt cheap.

The work doesn't pause. The exchanges don't pause. The conferences don't pause. Telling someone who has been working unpaid for six years to keep waiting because the chart looks bad is not fiscal responsibility - it's asking someone to subsidize the chain with their personal life indefinitely.

We have established relationships and communication channels that took years to build. The kind of trust and reputation behind them doesn't transfer on a spreadsheet and doesn't rebuild itself once lost. Letting that lapse over a sum this modest would be a remarkably expensive way to save money.

Is this bad timing for a proposal? Yes. We should have set this right long, long ago. But this bad timing we are in is also exactly when this kind of work is needed the most.