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A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods — HN submission

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:22:08 GMT

A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods

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A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods — mentioned by munfred

Sun, 17 May 2020 04:16:37 GMT

Nice to see this here, I spent the last weekend reading about quadratic voting/funding. The core idea is that in order to decide how much "endorsement" each project amongst many receives, you take the square root of how much each person gave to that project, sum that, then square it to decide how much of a matching contribution to be given. It has a couple interesting properties that make it appealing for the funding of "public goods" (such as software) via grant matching mechanisms. The main ones: - Projects with distinct supporter bases will receive more funding if they join forces as a…

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A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods — mentioned by DennisP

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:31:48 GMT

They actually authored a paper together: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243656 On arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06421

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