tehelsper
commented
4 years ago tril0byte,
I want to do everything I can to support the community, but the $99 for premium is intended to support my work integrating all of the projects. If a user would like to contribute to other projects, that is fantastic! I believe there is value is combining these solutions and the various projects benefit from additional exposure and expanding their userbases. I don't see this as a conflict of interest, but as something that is mutually beneficial.
I check the licenses of each project and make sure that I am not violating any agreements by including their software in each myNode distribution. Most projects can be included without any modifications.
That is a great idea regarding recurring donations to the various projects. It wouldn't be high on my priority list right now, but I'd happily integrate it if it is something you would like to submit a PR for.
Additionally, each project has their own goals and monetization strategies. Some may be trying to gain popularity or expand the ecosystem and others attempt to monetize their work in various ways:
- Samourai benefits through fees as people use it to mix coins
- LNDHub gets people using Blue Wallet that has a Marketplace built in
- LND Connect gets more people to use Zap and it's upcoming Lightning exchange
- BTCPay Server needs popularity to get large donations for its foundation
Hope that helps explain my reasoning.
Taylor
asperks
I notice Whirlpool (as well as VPN, and Remote Tor Access) shows as a premium feature. Since you will be earning Premium purchases from Samourai's hard work (among others), have you approached Samourai to discuss what an appropriate portion of the currently $99 premium should be donated back to support Samourai? I ask this not to stir up trouble but to point out that it looks bad, and Samourai might not be okay with it.
It should be possible to use Lightning to send Samourai a cut with every purchase on your side and publish clearly that you do so. However, I'd prefer the user to choose the proportion of how much to donate to Samourai, RTL, Tor, etc.
The myNode would be an ideal platform for recurring donations. Have the node run a scheduled job every month to: Call "lnurl invoice" on each project the user wishes to donate to and auto-pay it from the wallet. In this way you can request a donation to myNode and make other people's code included in Community Edition, avoiding any appearance of conflicts of interest by charging money for other people's code they already released.