The public funding platform for the development of free software Bountysource now works with Bitcoin

Bountysource , the increasingly popular platform for public funding of free software development, now allows mutual settlements not only in dollars, but also in Bitcoin cryptocurrency.

Bountysource works as follows:

• If you need a feature to appear in a particular software product or a defect has been fixed, you can declare a fundraiser for the developer who will take it. Perhaps, besides you, other people will donate money to it, and some of the developers will thus take up the matter faster, since it will be profitable.
• If you want to make money, you can take up the implementation of features and fix bugs. Of course, the result of your work will be available not only to those who financed it, but also to the entire opensource community. Double benefit: you are simultaneously expanding your open-source portfolio (when hiring a large amount of high-quality open source code of your authorship can play very well in your favor) and get paid for it.

I think that Bountysource and other similar platforms in the future will allow to bring free software to a new level. In fact, this model can be so effective that at some point the need to purchase proprietary software for most people will completely disappear: because a professional developer will be so profitable to work on OS-projects, it will simply become their main activity, instead of work on proprietary projects.