I think that my favorite aspect of this project is the perceptibly dynamic nature of the development team. It's not a static vision by a central figure, but a group of people who seemingly share fundamental core beliefs and are willing to adapt and evolve as well as incorporate new technologies to bring these fundamental ideas to fruition. I enjoy the white papers for their substance even if they are a bit opaque, but love the enthusiasm behind them. I'd strongly encourage others to give them a read if they have not done so already.
You really hit the nail on the head. A shared language/philosophy between the core team is very important to us, on which infrastructure will be built around.
The Crown papers are opaque on purpose, as our destination is understood, how to get there is another story and we didn't want to let on to our ideas and how to implement them. Everything is coming clearer by the day and the team should have some very interesting documentation to release to the public, in the coming weeks.
Just to add to what defunctec said -- if you just analyze the "crypto" universe as an industry -- bitcoin was a proof of concept for a system... that's all, it was meant to evolve in ways that it hasn't but still may. Traditionally, when a major new technology, like what I think we all believe these "crypto" systems are, well, you have an explosion of systems and then there is a consolidation process.
Often this gets characterized as "bubbles" -- but that's not quite right, but it's worth remembering that in any innovation cycle, much of the capital invested is destroyed because most of the businesses that are created to pursue the opportunity end up getting destroyed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-NXDCXzraoSo if one is going to wade into the "deep end" of an innovative new technology, you need to ask what your edge might be... and what if any edge your team might have...
In the case of Crown -- we would like think that we have an edge from just looking at the platform as something which provides business opportunities -- not an opportunity itself but a vehicle on which businesses can be built and operated. Not just one sort of business or product -- but a lot of different ones... So maybe that's #1. But then you can look around and convince yourself that other people are doing that... and you can run through any single thing and it's not really clear that anything is necessarily unique. There are a lot of smart people trying to solve this problem and it's foolish to assume that there aren't smarter people or people with better ideas and or skill out there... but,
What no one seems to have really created is a truly distributed collaborative community and token -- where as entropycoin points out, it doesn't depend on any one person...
And then if you think of building a distributed collaborative culture as your differentiator -- one might imagine a world where one mechanism at play in the consolidation phase would be to create a team that could attract developers and some of those very smart potential competitors to collaborate with Crown (since it's open source, there is no reason that whatever we build at Crown can't be borrowed by anyone else - just as we have borrowed from others, so the code can never really be a final differentiator -- it's just a cost of admission). To have Crown be a place where people can try out ideas and develop skills, experiment with new things, and learn from and enjoy the folks they are working with...
That experimentation is also essential -- if you believe that there is anything to evolution -- because the way evolution and a lot of technology really seem to work is trial and error -- so we want to be able to run as many experiments (safely) as possible on the Crown Platform -- and if that happens then there is a chance we will start to learn from those experiments and the development process and usefulness of the token accelerates...
crowncoin_knight sometimes suggests this is being good guys... arguably it's more of just don't be an asshole (having worked in finance for too long as made me suspicious of anyone claiming to do good - so I prefer and trust people who are just working hard not to be complete assholes most of the time)...
thanks for noticing...
