I'm glad you like OSCARs! I totally agree, incentives are different. Well you have now tested both and look's like hiring hasn't work, maybe next time? I'm sure the right candidate will pop up with some amazing PoW through the OSCARs.

Bounties are only one part: I also understand people can submit new features and actively contribute. If aligned with yours and the community vision, they could go merged or not. It will be nice to have community members voting on features requests coming from the community itself

SN's Hiring Trial and Energetic Solutions to Problems Created by My Shortcomings

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I love the initialism! 

> Why not continue improving and making more efforts to improve the OSCARs?

We will! We want a diversity of improvers though because at least until OSCARs are perfect (which I suspect isn't exactly possible) it makes the project more anti-fragile. Hiring someone long term gives them a different set of incentives than someone completing bounties. Neither is absolutely better or worse, but the kind of impact they'll have on the project is different.