I still don’t get it. Governance is hard enough as-is. Why would you want to make it deliberately worse?
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3/ This will happen to any blockchain with significant mass adoption.
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4/ You can of course ignore the ossified protocol & keep adding your own stuff to it. But likely no one would want to use your custom protocol.
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5/ Just look at how hard it is to upgrade the Internet Protocol. Many years ago, I worked for a telecom company & personally witnessed how painfully slow carriers move in terms of adopting IPv6- despite everyone knowing how much better IPv6 is.
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6/ RE: Governance, if the protocol gets ossified, there’s less of a need for governance or BIP process. So in some sense, we *want* to ossify quickly, in order to avoid the governance mess. An ossified protocol is like Gold: it has fixed properties. No one can mess with it.
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7/ Governance, then, is more important during the development of a protocol. In this regard, we can let different blockchains experiment with different governance processes, and let them duke it out.
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8/ I’m of the opinion that BIP/OSS process is already adequate. When it comes to building infrastructure software, you want the most qualified people to make the decisions. It shouldn’t be a democracy.
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9/ Regular users don’t understand the nuances of technical parameters like block size, as
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10/ Keep in mind, miners can already send technical people to represent themselves in the BIP process. So could a party like Coinbase. No one is stopping them from participating.
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11/ If you are technically competent, you can contribute. Period. No need to distinguish devs vs. users vs. miners vs. exchanges. Think about it, how would you know a dev is not already working for a miner?
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12/ TL;DR: Blockchain governance should be a question of expertise, not democracy.
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