Have heard Jihan Wu mentioned many times in Crypto Articles but I haven't really find time to research what he ACTUALLY stands for as they usually turn out to be the opposite of what they preach. .
So from the link below he delivered a speech at a Bitcoin conference in Netherlands, titled:
“Why Multiple Implementations are Quite Important for Bitcoin.” https://news.bitcoin.com/jihan-wu-talks-about-obedience-to-authority-in-the-cryptocurrency-space/Here are 6 points from his Speech I find very interesting:
1. crypto-project founders could potentially be tyrants or dictators.
2. Tyranny crops up partly as a result of human nature, and human tendency to be obedient to authority. There is a readiness for human beings to obey others. (See Stanley Milgram ‘s Obedience to Authority Experiment.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html )
3. Humans have inbuilt biases, such as the the Halo Effect. This means that if people have a certain quality or impression, then other contributors and people may be more likely to follow them: the Bandwagon effect. In this psychological effect, people are likely to follow the crowd or follow people merely because they are doing it.
All of these are social dynamic effects that everyone in the cryptocurrency ecosystem has to be wary of, lest we end up following a ruler in the form of a developer or programmer. 5. A Crypto Tyrant could wake up one day and decide to alter a code, no one questions the move and he does it multiple times. This is something that has to be watched, even if he/she is the creator.
5. In order to solve this problem of protocol tyranny and hijacked implementations, Wu suggested that for the future of bitcoin to remain beautiful and grow, the community will need multiple implementations.
6. FINALLY. Bitcoin has missed many great innovations, including smart contracts and the creation of decentralized exchanges. a community bitcoin is a little late to the game in regards to innovation.
The reason why bitcoin has missed these innovations is because some bitcoiners, trash new innovations by always calling them scammy or leveling other judgmental critiques. Getting the community outside of the follower mentality and convincing them to accept the possibility of innovation through multiple implementations will provide the network and ecosystem with the room to grow and thrive.