With the frequency they're on here it feels like a guerilla marketing campaign. Everyone anyways points out they're a crypto scam and then they pop back up a month later and try again.
Was just going to comment something similar down here. Funding FOSS is good, but someone could say that 'giving donations' in crypto to a project that doesn't take crypto donations, and then making them make a crypto wallet to claim the funds, seems just like a convenient way to grow a crypto network. Depending on the conduct afterwards, that could work like any sort of financial scheme common in the space. Hard to know beforehand.
Drips and the infrastructure for that may or may not be a crypto scam. But radicle can't be, because it doesn't involve any coins. Yes, there's $RAD. No, you don't need to use it or even know about it when you're using the radicle project itself.
Firstly, people working on crypto are either the most wide eyed idealistic (to the point it approached willful stupidity), or dubious scummy people I’ve ever met. That doesn’t bode well for the software.
Secondly, because of the first, crypto will eventually make it’s way into the product.
Radicle is a true peer-to-peer protocol. It doesn’t use nor
depend on any blockchain or cryptocurrency.
Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is
organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on
Ethereum.
which part is a scam, again? I see interesting open source software and them funding open source with real world money. If this is what scams look like I hope we see more of them.
The part where you discuss Radicle on Hacker News. The commentators here are not always open minded, and they often love to bash everything which they think is cryptocurrency related.
It's a bunch of crypto bros aggressively marketing a product with no clear use case. If you ask about how the monetization works they frantically wave their hands. They also have been trying to obfuscate their connections with their radicle now rad coin and keep claiming it's unrelated despite the old naming.
Looking forward to the fediverse posts later today, it'll be a good time.
The Radicle project doesn't involve the crypto token, started by Radworks, in its technology.
It's also stated in the FAQ on the website (https://radicle.xyz/faq) that the project is funded by Radworks and also provides a link to the funding page.
I, for one, work on Radicle and what I care about is the data sovereignty and local-first code collaboration. We're building on top of Git to provide a local-first, extensible collaboration experience -- avoiding walled gardens like GitHub :)
As a project team, we only posted once on HN when we were announcing our v1.0 release candidates. The other two posts have been from other people outside of the organisation, so it's nice to see there's interest in the project but don't blame us for that kind of hype :')
