The road map is increasingly complex and expensive in the next few years. If the price increases dramatically, there will be a vote to reduce.
That's what you say today but I hope that vote is even achievable by then. What is the threshold for the vote to reduce dev funding if deemed the right action?
The community governance system requires a proposal to receive at least 10% of the masternodes voting yes, after subtracting any no votes. Beyond that it ranks proposals by the ratio of yes to no votes, and stops when the development budget runs out, since this system is primarily designed to pay out the development budget to the approved proposals, which can be submitted by anyone, not just the core team.
Since there were slightly over 500 masternodes when these votes were taken, that meant we needed 51 more yes votes than no votes for these proposals to pass. The development budget increase passed by the widest margin of any of them, with 99 voting yes and 4 voting no. I found that to be a huge vote of confidence in the core development team, and the need to fund the ambitious roadmap we have set out for this year.
The same rules would apply to reduce the development budget if the community thought that was the best course of action. I would be happy to pay the proposal fee if required for it--we are also reducing those fees from 50 PHR to 25 PHR so that it is more affordable for community members to submit proposals, but if the price of Phore increases dramatically which is the scenario I think we're considering, then 25 PHR may still be a lot. Dash's proposal fee is 5 Dash and with a price in the $600-700 range it is several thousand dollars to submit one, with no guarantee the proposal will be paid out of the votes are not enough for approval.
Based on the number of masternodes at that time, a 10% margin of yes over no votes would be needed to reduce the development budget.
This budget is the entire budget for the development of Phore. There was no ICO or developer premine, and community members can submit proposals as well. This could be for Phore people to attend blockchain conferences or sponsor a booth or send a speaker, it could be to pay the 50K Euro fee for Ledger hardware wallet integration, or it could be for a community member that has a great idea for a Dapp that uses Phore. I fully expect that if the development budget became much larger than was needed to fund the core team's development efforts for achieving our roadmap, the core team would submit proposals for what was needed and encourage the community to submit their best ideas for how to make Phore provide more value. Also, if we do not submit large enough proposals to use all of the available budget, the remainder is simply not given out.
All of this is driven by our community governance process, and we feel that is a very important and valuable part of the Phore community, and it provides a lot of resilience to the Phore blockchain. Right now, the core development team is driving almost all of the development efforts in the Phore roadmap, and thus most of the funding is being directed that way by the masternode owners votes. If the core team all went down in an airplane crash, a new development team or set of individuals could step in with their proposals and continue Phore's development right where we left off. I really like the decentralized nature of the governance system.
Moonshot - Phore CTO