Lessons To Consider When Building A Decentralized Future
What can we learn from the 18th century in regards to governance and power when designing a future built on Bitcoin?This is an opinion editorial by Buck O Perley, a software engineer at Unchained Capital helping build bitcoin-native financial services.This is Part One of a two-part article set that describes crypto-governance and the dangers of faction.PrefaceI originally wrote this post in late 2017, after the “Big Blockers” had forked off to start their own chain with Bitcoin Cash and Segwit activation but before anything had been settled with SegWit2x. While the debates around the....
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