Editing Quadratic Funding (section)

==== Discrete rounds vs continuous ====
Some implementations have discrete rounds, where donations are only for that specific round, and happen infrequently - Gitcoin did theirs 4 times a year, for example, with donations only being open for a few weeks, to give people time to iterate and adjust their inputs based on the inputs of others, and with significant downtime inbetween funding rounds. Once the deadline is reached, funds are sent all at once.

Some do continuous funding - i.e. you donate, say, $10/month to a project, and your individual contribution stays fixed until you change it. Funds are continuously sent to each project, and subject to change at any time.

Streaming funds seems much more likely to reach a proper equilibrium, as it is always active, and contributions are recurring. In the discrete rounds case, due to the small time windows and large gaps between them, it could very well be the case that someone wants to donate but doesn't catch the window when it's open, or does once and then doesn't catch the next one. 

Discrete rounds also led to the phenomenon of people stopping the work they were doing so they could fundraise, marketing themselves and requesting people go to Gitcoin and donate to their project.

While I do strongly prefer continuous implementations, I can see the appeal of having discrete rounds. Continuous means your project's income can change at any time. Discrete rounds have uncertainty too, just at known times.