On 05/09/2016 01:41 PM, mray wrote: > Hello there, > > I'd like to get feedback from people who know this kind of stuff: > a blockchain based platform that sounds interesting - > https://www.ethereum.org > > It looks like with it you can create your own Bitcoin-like system that > is as decentralized as Bitcoin but allows to add more rules. I was > wondering if snowdrift.coop could be an "democratic autonomous > organization" harnessing that technique. > > It might be only a hip buzzword trophy - or maybe not so bad at all. Is > it crappy to think about doing our pledging that way? > > > mray > >
My feeling is that this stuff is untested largely in the real world and is more speculative than Snowdrift.coop. Bitcoin itself may have gotten some weird attention from a surprisingly large number of people, but it is actually a tiny fraction of even the already-limited set of people who already understand free/libre/open issues who have actually got into Bitcoin and related. So, even if Bitcoin and Ethereum were perfectly sensible technologies, the vast majority of the audience we're aiming for has little connection or awareness or interest in those things. Besides that, I am a Bitcoin skeptic and think the claims people make about its significance and potential are overblown. The amount of mere electricity used to run Bitcoin stuff if it actually reached widespread adoption seems completely unworkable from my lay-person view. I think it will never become truly mainstream. If I'm wrong, and these technologies become significant, we can use them then. It's an implementation detail, not a major design factor. There's no realistic path to getting running as a more decentralized blockchain implementation. I don't think that direction makes much sense as the core foundation for anything. It's just something we can support as a side aspect if and when it actually seems worthwhile.
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