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Topic: [2018-03-14] Ethereum Is Throwing Out the Crypto Governance Playbook (Read 113 times)

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"Can't we just solve scaling? Can't we just solve privacy? Can't we just say 'done' and get to feature-complete?"

That was the question Bob Summerwill asked the audience at the ethereum conference EthCC in Paris on Thursday, the comments coming as part of a broader talk that called for an end to "tribalism" in the community supporting the world's second-largest blockchain.

Community manager at ethereum and an ambassador for blockchain alliance Sweetbridge, Summerwill opened the conference on a note that would reverberate throughout the next three days; that while the development of the ethereum "world computer" is a technical pursuit, it cannot escape social entanglements.

More recently, debates concerning the return of lost funds have demonstrated cracks in the platform's existing governance, which relies on a process borrowed from bitcoin and internet development, the request for proposal (RFP) process.

https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-throwing-crypto-governance-playbook/
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