turbine distributes cryptocurrency to contributors of git repos.
Issue bounties can be counterproductive as they discourage collaboration and often attract minimum-quality solutions.
Instead of rewarding specific contributions like bug bounties, turbine reduces unfriendly competition by rewarding all contributions. Multiple authors can even work on the same issue and all get paid independently.
Although a complex change might deserve a larger award than a minor typo fix, turbine doesn't factor the magnitude of changes. Instead, a developer's award amount starts out small and increases over time as they make more contributions.
This incentivizes contributors to stick around and break their changes up into smaller chunks (which is a good thing for other reasons too).
It's up to the discretion of the person that merges PRs to make sure contributors aren't unfairly boosting their rewards. In the event that such an injustice occurs, maintainers can cancel payouts or ban contributors.
First, you need to find a repository that's hosting a turbine. The full list
is currently small enough to maintain here:
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