To be honest I this a very difficult proposal and I am also hesitant to comment on this as the topic is basicly asking to evaluate an individuals contribution to the chain and compensate them a large amount of money when the chain is taking hit after hit.

If this proposal passes I believe this opens the door to a lot more claims of popular key figures and witnesses that were earning hive and sticked to the supporting the chain and are seeing theire earning deminish on the downworth spiral.

On your specific case I can only say I truely appreciate you, but I also feel we should address the general questions first as it will set a precedent.

Questions I think are important to discuss before indivudual cases:

1. Should key figures be compensated for the risk they took it the past when it didn’t turn out like they hoped?
2. What would be the impact on the chain when we are in red and will reward large amounts for past contributions?
3. If these claims are reasonable how do we prevent it becoming a popularity contest.
4. If this is reasonable how do we determine a fair value that is suitable for both the work, the risk/reward trade-off but also reasonable in terms of impact on the chain.

I really hope that you don’t view this as an evaluation of your case, like I mentioned I really appreaciate you.
My hope is that we, as a community, can tackle this methodically, so that we prevent a large extraction wave (from follow-on claims).