Governance has been around for as long as blockchains have. Satoshi’s departure had governance implications (and might have been a governance decision) the DAO hack was remedied through governance, each BIP and EIP are about governance. It’s not a question of ‘if’ but ‘how’.
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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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Again, I don't understand this position. Just because governance is hard doesn't mean we should give up on it. Change is the only way we can improve the platform.
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Stasis is something to avoid, not to aspire to!
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Not sure I agree. Sure we should try to improve existing governance. But governance is ultimately a people problem. By removing humans from the equation altogether, we can scale in other dimensions (ie: social scalability). Stasis can be good :-)
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At some stage some upgrade or changes will almost certainly be required. Denying that only builds in obsolescence. Black/white often leads to perve we (and unintended) consequences. The human factor allows flexibility to deal with that.
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*perverse* consequences
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Nice nice nice use of the word ossified. One of favorite formerly forgotten poetic pieces of language.
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