Notes on Blockchain Governance

Written by Vitalik | Published 2019/05/30
Tech Story Tags: blockchain | governance | decentralization | vitalik-buterin | voting

TLDR In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought. In all of these cases, the votes are automatic - the protocol itself contains all of the logic needed to change the validator set or to update its own rules, and does this automatically in response to the result of votes.via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2019/05/30