This statement ignores technology history. There is another approach which is rooted on cooperation and good will between stakeholder groups, stabilized by social contracts and policies, and made operational using community infrastructure like in-person meetings and signaling. https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1009996445280169985 …
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This basically is how the Internet protocols are governed, and social scaling of its management has held up well. Blockchain protocol governance does pose special challenges due to the lack of any points of control in the network.
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Still, I think that community groups can coordinate decisions about protocol changes and the deployment of changes to the network using the traditional stakeholder governance approaches from bodies like the IETF.
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If the objection is less trust in the resulting network: building good communications infra among the maintainers and community groups leads to better engineering, and does not have to preclude achieving trustlessness or other important properties.
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