Check out this table I made, I call it “Some Do’s and Dont’s of Participating in Blockchain Governance in Good Faith”: Don’t feel like if you’ve done any of the “dont’s” that you’ve necessarily acted in bad faith. Given the level of public understanding of governance (and especially blockchain governance)…

“Blockchain Governance 101” was my attempt to set the scene, as I see it, of what blockchain governance is, what outcomes are at stake, and how the public can participate at this stage of the game to determine blockchain governance outcomes. This blog won’t make as much sense if you…

There’s a lot of confusion about blockchain governance. Many participants and potential participants inside and outside the blockchain space fail to effectively participate in blockchain governance. I hope that this situation will improve with more public understanding of the basics of blockchain governance, the possible governance outcomes, and how they…

Hi again! I thought I would address some of the discussion/feedback One of my favorites is what Vitalik wrote in response: To be clear I’m not necessarily wedded to a finite supply cap. The fact is that we have not solved blockchain governance, and I worry that there is a large chance that we never will…medium.com Here are the first two paragraphs: To be clear I’m not necessarily wedded to a finite supply cap. That said, I do think that you are missing one of…

Hi everyone! This is just an opinion piece :) Background Vitalik cleverly made a controversial EIP on April fools: But notes that it doesn’t matter whether or not it was made in jest: I don’t like the proposal, so I’m going to give my opinion about it :) We don’t know what Ether supply model is optimal I…

Refuting (and rebuking) Fred Ehrsam’s governance blog — I’ve been thinking about blockchain governance for a long time, and recently my understanding of the process has become (I think) a lot more clear. I was (and still am) working on a blog post titled “Blockchain Governance 101”, which I hope will share some basic language for reasoning about…

The blockchain has the potential to impact society, and it is precisely the properties that make the blockchain potentially useful that also make the blockchain potentially harmful. It’s our responsibility as technologists to inform people about the possible consequences of the adoption of the technology we develop. It’s also our…

Following Simon’s example, I’m going to post a twitter thread to medium (with maybe some additional comments!). I got a question about the structure of blockchain governance. I don’t tweet about what it would mean for governance to be more or less decentralized, in this thread, but it may still…

There are many ways that a blockchain can fail. It’s always good to think about what failure looks like because it lets us see 1) how bad it might be, and 2) how it’s possible to recover from failure and 3) how can failure be prevented. Knowing how things can…