@i1skn Thank you for your honesty. This is actually very usefull for us. I know you are not the only developer who does not like to “have to put his hand up” to aks for funding and defend himself for asking amount XYZ.
There never has been any restriction on the way developers can get funding and in most cases I think no unfair demands have been put forward to developers. However, I am starting to understand how from a psychological point of view Funding Requests do not feel attractive or welcoming since making a request is putting yourself open to scrutiny and bashing from people who often do not even know much what they are talking about. If you have suggestions on a better funding or governance format, let us know.
It is also very useful to hear how the need to be online all the time poses a bottleneck. Interactive is not an issue on its own, but the need to be online combined with the lack of a default channel for sending slate-packs can be a bottleneck. Perhaps we should dive again into this discussion on Bulletin boards:
I am afraid we cannot do much to the enduring issues with memo’s. It is bad system since it just hijacks normal transactions without using the specific ‘memo’ field. Worse of all, I think I am the one who proposed this hacky workaround solution a long time ago. Mea culpa.
The real problem is the unwillingness of exchange to implement slatepacks which always have been the only proper solution
Again, thank you for keeping Ironbelly alive for so many year for enthusiast like myself 
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