I’ve been looking into nostr bounties recently, and I realize I have some qualms with the bounty work process.

Firstly, there’s the obvious issue of redundant work when someone else already worked on it. And it follows that it’s a risky bet to start working on a bounty.

However, what really bothers me is that I find myself in a mindset where I don’t really want to contribute to someone else’s project that they already received a bounty on, and instead I have this false hope that if I made my own version from scratch, I’d magically find more (monetary) value in that. That isn’t productive if the goal of these bounties is to foster development on nostr. However, I doubt I’m the only one.