Just my humble opinion, 10k per month is on the high side. Let me explain. As entrepeneur or scientis, or in any other way idealisticly invested programmer you earn less for similar work. Friends of me in similar positions in NL in the private sector earn 75k a year. In accedemia less, e.g 40-50k. So in my humble opinion, as lead/senior programmer in the “idealistic” project GRIN, accepting more modest pay, 6-8k (in euro per month), if you are able to, would show merits. The project might not not always get such generous gifts as 50 Bitcoins from anonymous angel investors. In the end there is a finit amount of funding that when shared in modesty could empower more developers. Appart from the somewhat high developers fee, I do think the project is going in the right direction, 2020 will be the year everything will come together and usability (and required work on the core) will become apperent and recognized by the community.