I dont see how Hivebounty solves that. It just kind of makes it harder to get funding, how i see it.

HiveBounty isn't my answer to the newcomer funding problem. The answer to that is in the post: reserve part of the daily DHF budget for first-time proposals, cap renewals, fund milestones instead of dripping money daily. All changes to the DHF itself. I said spend the fund, spend more of it, just spend it differently.

The HiveBounty mention was about the payment model, not the funding source. Money goes into escrow, work gets done, work gets verified, person gets paid. Compare that to the current DHF setup where funds flow every single day whether anything ships or not. That's the mechanic I want the DHF to adopt.

And nothing stops the two from combining. A DHF proposal can fund a bounty pool. Then the money comes from the treasury, not anyone's pocket, and it only leaves escrow when something ships. You get the decentralised funding the DHF was built for plus actual accountability on delivery, which the DHF has never had.

On the AI point, someone still has to do the work. AI made execution cheaper, it didn't make outcomes free. If a task takes two hours instead of two days now, fine, the bounty still pays on delivery. Outcome-based payment gets more attractive when execution is cheap, not less. The model that ages badly in an AI world is paying someone a daily rate for four years regardless of what they produce.