Does a Crypto Network Exist Without a Community?
summary
Argues that social consensus shows up as concrete actions not promises: organizers build the Guardian testnet and run hackathons to align incentives; core developers reach rough consensus on protocol changes while public debate happens on Twitter and at events; ideological breaks trigger chain splits as with UASF vs SegWit2x and Ethereum/Classic, not negotiated compromise; claims scaling from a few designers to millions of stakeholders makes defining who decides the protocol the real technical governance problem.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Social consensus in crypto
- 1:13Building consensus in fractious communities
- 5:46Competing visions and the reality of social consensus
- 8:16When compromise fails
- 10:23IETF rough consensus vs crypto
- 13:59Who shapes crypto consensus
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