On Conflicts of Interest & When to Recuse

[machinesunmachine]

@1337bytes roping in your contribution to this discussion:

Grant Application: BTCPayServer Zcash Module Project Review

Could you explain what the conflict of interest is? Only me and @hanh have contributed code to the BTCPayServer Zcash plugin. In any case, I don’t feel that simply contributing code to a project would constitute a conflict of interest if it is unpaid and there isn’t some commercial motive. I feel that @hanh’s input into the discussion would be valuable (at least when it comes to technical expertise, this could be a separate comment in the form of a forum post though); however yes, there would…

I think I’ve explained my opinion on the conflict of interest in my comment above.

I absolutely agree with you that people who have worked on a project should still contribute to the discussion around future grant proposals regarding that project. I do think that the right place for that is in the public forum.