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A fascinating idea: "retroactive public goods funding." Rather than focusing on advance fund-raising for public goods (a la Kickstarter, quadratic funding), make a mechanism which rewards projects which create a lot of value, e.g. thru a "results oracle."

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Retroactive Public Goods Funding

Note: The Optimism team has long been in search of a solution on how to sustainably fund public goods, and we now have the structure of our…

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Gideonro

@gideonro

Sep 8, 2021

You've probably moved on, Andy, but this is the biggest thread I've found on Twitter on this topic. It's very interesting and has the potential to function as a mechanism for executing theories of change in social goods investments. You still tracking this?

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

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@gideonro

Yes, certainly, though I'm not aware of any new developments since the thread.

12:27 AM · Sep 8, 2021TweetDeck

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Yeah. It does look like Vitalik is still thinking actively about it: twitter.com/VitalikButerin The price floor is interesting. The "Results Oracle" feels like a bit of a hand wave still -- essentially wise people setting rewards. But, there's something interesting here.

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vitalik.eth

@VitalikButerin

· Sep 2, 2021

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I've recently been really interested in retroactive public goods funding! medium.com/ethereum-optim Though of course this could be combined with QV/QF.