This^ 100%! If you want to get political, you're free to fork off or use other blockchain solutions. But let the engineers do their job! After they're done, the market can decide. It's not like engineers can dictate how a blockchain is used. That's the beauty of the OSS model.
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It's ill suited if the class of engineers you are delegating to is *ill-defined* (eg if one can argue their membership in this set). See: Bitcoin If this set of engineers is OTOH made explicit, it is quite a good & clear model IMO. This is the "benevolent dictatorship" model.
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The problem I have with BTC governance is the continued refusal to make this set explicit *as a community* (a set that, e.g., voting is very suited for choosing). The other problem I have is disingenuous charlatans insisting the process is apolitical when it's anything but.
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1/ Anything that involves human decision-making has some political element, sure. But engineers (& scientists) are *specifically trained* to avoid political bias & to think objectively.
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2/ This and the fact that they are technically competent, make them the most qualified to drive the technology forward. Not the masses.
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3/ A better way than “making the set of engineers explicit” via some form of election, is to leave the development process open (as it is now), but do two things:
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4/ a) have complete transparency (public peer reviews) and b) define an objective standard through which we can evaluate technical changes.
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5/ The BIP process is already very close to this system (although I’m sure we can do a better job in terms of defining the objective standard). Part of the reason people mistook the block size for a political issue is because we don’t agree on the objective standard.
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6/ This IMO is better than your idea of voting the engineers in. For a couple of reasons. First, just because you vote some people in doesn’t mean they don’t have political bias, or can’t acquire bias *after* they get voted in.
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