
I was lucky enough in my timing to be one of the first members of the Ethereum team. One of the things I really liked about the ethereum project and the community around it was the lack of ideological rigidity that seemed to infect the Bitcoin community. The people in the community were different; less obsessed with money, and more engaging to interact…
If we place community cohesion above all of our other values, however, then in the long run it will be impossible to prevent a majority from controlling the protocol in a way that runs against our core values. If we place our values ahead of community cohesion, then when there’s an attempted majority takeove…