Currently, we have a deficit in letter writing primarily because of our transition to PODC (heat mining rewards are lower, so the letter writing budget dropped) so people are not participating in writing for financial rewards. In addition with the launch of purepool, most heat miners have navigated away from pool.biblepay.org to take advantage of the lower fee mining and avoiding the penalty that exists on the main pool.
Some have floated the idea of rewarding letter writers out of the p2p budget, others have floating sponsor-a-child feature (where one person owns a child, and takes responsibility for all communications with that child).
This proposal seeks 500,000 BBP to be split into two buckets:
Bucket 1: (250,000 BBP): Used to reward letter writers in pool.biblepay.org for writing letters at approximately 1000 bbp per letter out of this fund.
Bucket 2: (250,000 BBP): This will be reserved in the sponsor-a-child account, while Rob creates the feature. Rob will make it so children who are sponsored by a miner do not appear in the general write-to-a-child business logic flow. Instead the user will navigate to an available children list for sponsorship, and sponsor the child. They will receive funds from this bucket as they write letters.
We will remove the writing penalty at the same time this bridge system goes into effect.
