Throwing this idea out there for discussion.

I think the Drupal ecosystem would benefit greatly if it had it's own cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. The coin's main purpose is to reward existing drupal developers and others that contribute to the community. The coin's value is derived from devs or agencies accepting it for support or development. The idea is to create a medium of exchange within our own drupal ecosystem that feeds itself and helps it grow by creating a token of "drupal" value.

As for the distribution aspect of this coin, it would be based on the activity of the drupal users profile or some other metric we'd have to brainstorm. Contributors would be rewarded more than non-contributors obviously.

Possible distribution models:

- Large distributions to drupal agencies that redistribute to their devs.
- Distribute some based on drupal profile activity / posts
- Drupal Stack exchange distribution based on user activity
- # of commits to drupal for modules
- Local Community organizers
- Drupal coin tipping

The idea is to create a network effect with the drupal coin and let it run on its own. Distribution of this will be tricky part.

Thoughts?

Comments

andypost’s picture

Also it may help community to learn new tools

GuillaumeDuveau’s picture

Interesting indeed. There might be no need to create a crypto specific to Drupal, existing cryptos could suffice.

About rewarding Drupal devs, see also this recent podcast : https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast/sustainable-model-...

patoshi’s picture

I've been following the crypto space for some time. I think Drupal can greatly benefit from this merger.

I'm thinking Drupal can adopt the new child chain technology using the Ardor platform as this doesn't require nodes to support the drupal coin network and doesnt require native token fees. It's something very new. Still needs more research. 

Hopefully we can open a dialog on this.

GuillaumeDuveau’s picture

Drupal has been "getting of the island" for some time now. I'm just sayin', IF crypto dev rewards & bounties get traction with Drupal community, would we really need a dedicated cryptocurrency or should we try to join a more global ecosytem ? Like Utopian.io but with a stronger support, for example from FSF.

patoshi’s picture

That's new with using the steem blockchain. Very interesting. I'll have to take a further look into that. It seems going on that platform would only reward users that contribute on the start of that day and not previous users.

I'm thinking we should reward old contributors in order to kickstart this movement. This would require thinking up of a drupal coin distribution model based on previous history of each user. 

jboeger’s picture

As a longtime Drupaler and crypto enthusiast, this would be my dream match. Imagine your new drupal install as a child chains on the ardor platform. And perhaps the files (CDN) are stored on the Sia network... all secured, distributed, and decentralized. 

 

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