I’m a community member and open-source contributor. Not a spokesperson.
Yes. It is bad if that is the only priority considering there was a very large donation made specifically to fund open-source projects INCLUDING AKITA. Akita can access these funds already.
It seems very, very strange to ignore this fact and insist that Gitcoin tie themselves to Akita. Akita can be a part of open-source development, but having Gitcoin depend on Akita’s development makes really no sense.
Further, if any of these community members believed in Akita, they would know that if the price goes lower, the coin surely has inherent value and they would buy more.
If they don’t think this is the case, they why are they in the Akita community? Surely there must be some fundamental value Akita and its dev’s bring?
Please. If I am uninformed on the utility Akita provides/can provide to Gitcoin, please inform me.
If noone can inform me on any of this… It makes the Akita community look like a hollow cash-grab. Which of course makes this attempt to leech disproportionate funding seem even more distasteful.