Tomasz Donarski's wroclove.rb 2023 talk, structured in two parts. Part one catalogs the pollutants of the open-source landscape: maintainers with no sustainable funding (dramatized via the fictional-then-revealed story of Homebrew and Max Howell running out of money repeatedly in the Bay Area), the lack of industry understanding of OSS (log4j maintainers abused after the vulnerability; a Fortune-500 company demanding curl respond to a security questionnaire in 24 hours with no SLA), the depressing state of core-js (~30M weekly downloads, barely funded), the insufficient support for mid-tier gems (Peter Solnica's GitHub sponsorship progress bar), sabotage (the left-pad yank after an npm trademark dispute; colors.js and Faker.js deliberately broken by the author in protest over lack of sponsorship), malware (event-stream back-door stealing Bitcoins; typosquatted gems leaking environment variables to attackers; GitHub's estimate that 17% of OSS bugs are planted deliberately), and the failure of current support modes — sponsorship (only reaches the most visible packages; unicorns like Shopify can't manually sponsor thousands of transitive dependencies) and bounties (distract maintainers and risk hijacking libraries toward one paying customer's needs). Part two introduces tea by Max Howell — a new package manager (Homebrew successor), a centralized package registry, a reputation system, and a rewards engine. Tokens are distributed on a proof-of-stake blockchain through a mechanism called 'steeping': staking tokens against a specific library, with a fraction rewarding the steeper (incentive to start sponsoring), part going to the package, and the rest recursively split across its dependencies, so leaf nodes like core-js and log4j are automatically remunerated. Participants include maintainers, developers, supporters who tip tokens, and 'tea tasters' who validate new releases — backing their review with staked tokens and earning rewards (or getting slashed for malicious/negligent reviews, with responsible-disclosure workflow modeled after Rafał Rothenberger's Devise talk). NFT/multi-contributor design is work-in-progress; a revised white paper is due. Dedicated to Ukrainian Ruby committer Victor Shepelev. Q&A covers Hacktoberfest, Mike Perham's Sidekiq monetization article, whether developers should just learn sales and marketing, and how tokens translate to real money (currently unanswered — community-driven, similar to Ethereum; initial metric may be download counts, later runtime vs build-time dependencies and actual usage).