[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Revert "Add FUNDING.json"

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 12:14:15AM +0200, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:14:15 +0200
> > From: Kieran Kunhya <kieran618 at googlemail.com>
> > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Revert "Add FUNDING.json"
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM Kieran Kunhya <kieran618 at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2025, 07:00 compn, <ff at hawaiiantel.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:20:56 +0100, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > This was pushed with outstanding reservations, with no positive
> > >> > affirmation or review from any other devs, and without a push
> noticed
> > >> > to say it was going to be pushed.
> > >> >
> > >> > Further, the wallet is controlled by a single individual, and not
> > >> > FFmpeg.
> > >>
> > >> ffmpeg is not an organization nor registered group. it cannot own
> > >> anything because it is not a legal entity.
> > >>
> > >> much like everything in the project, parts of ffmpeg are owned by
> > >> individual developers.
> > >>
> > >> -compn
> > >
> > >
> > > You know perfectly well this wallet could be converted to USD and sent
> to SPI but is being held as bitcoin purely out of ideological beliefs.
> > >
> > > Kieran
> >
> > I would recommend all FFmpeg developers read about why stablecoins are
> > a bad idea from actual economists, not Youtube economists:
> > https://archive.ph/6Ku7u
>
> yes
> ffmpeg discussing economics, that was sooooooooooooo needed
> (i do agree about youtube finance though its 99.99% criminal)
>
> Heres the summary of the article btw:
> "Top central bankers ..."
> ... would loose their job ... so they write an article about it
>
> Let me NOT link to anything just state in 2 sentences why stablecoins are
> good
>
> 1. You can get 4% risk free interrest on them because they are backed by
>    goverment bonds or other low risk assets.
> 2. Outside the "western world" you still have access to them, no need for a
>    bank account, proofing credit worthyness, your local dictator
> confiscating
>    half your money or hyperinflation taking its value away.
>

Bringing things back on topic, Micheal do you approve the removal of this
file given the controversy and "worsening message"/"hostility" it spurred?
Or are you accepting the leader position in which you make an executive
decision?

To be clear, either are fine, it just would just be good to clear the air
and have more clarity on this item.
Thanks
-- 
Vittorio