blockchain-governance.md

Blockchain governance

On-chain vs off-chain governance

• Off chain -> on-chain
• On-chain -> off-chain

http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/07/02/on-chain-vote-buying/

Hard forks

http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/measuring-decentralization/

• Rough consensus
• Tacit governance (git repo control, hashpower, exchange, wallet support)

Soft forks

• Soft fork as 51% attack
• Miner activated
• User activated

Off-chain

• Bitcoin
• Ethereum
• Cosmos (ish)

On-chain governance

• Dash
• Decred
• Tezos

  Not about participation / democracy
  Not about hot fixes or “patching” the ledger
  Not about treasury management
  All about preventing social attack vectors”
  

• Polkadot
  • Adaptive quorum biasing

tradeoff matrix

Identity

• Sybil resistance
• Anonymity, pseudonomy, global identity