2019-02-26 · timestamps by ADAtainment
JBC 02/26/2019
- Building Cardano with parallel teams and multiple implementations is deliberate: it prevents a monoculture, creates competitive pressure, and forces real specifications instead of a single reference client.
- The community proved it can act on its own, from the Cardano Guardians pushing Michael Parsons out of the Cardano Foundation to the stake pool task force that drew over a thousand volunteers in a week and a half.
- No problem stays local, so the point of the blockchain revolution is better tools for collective decision making on things like climate change, war, famine and disease.
- Emurgo should keep building the Yoroi ecosystem into a dApp environment better than what ConsenSys built for Ethereum, and stop asking companies whether they use blockchain: ask what problems their vertical actually has.
13 entries
Running IOHK, Rust and Haskell engineering in parallel avoids a monoculture and keeps every team pushing the envelope.
Multiple implementations force agreement at the specification level instead of letting a reference client define the protocol.
The mother of all community initiatives was the Cardano Guardians emerging during the Cardano Foundation trouble and pressuring Michael Parsons to step aside.
With Parsons gone the Guardians turned into watchdogs recommending better governance systems and better ways to manage the ecosystem.
The stake pool task force lets the community consolidate the recurring staking questions and answer them in one place, and over a thousand people signed up in a week and a half.
No problem stays in isolation: migration, the environment and the 2008 financial crisis show how one country's trouble cascades everywhere.
The point of the cryptocurrency and blockchain revolution is better governance systems and protocols for collectively solving big problems.
Order is a tool of the older: his math office was hundreds of half filled yellow pads of organized chaos, and he only started tidying as his attention to detail declined.
For the 10 Year Challenge, 2009 meant studying mathematics, jogging daily and being happier, and he will tweet a picture at some point.
Yoroi is an ecosystem play: Emurgo should give partners a place for tokens and dApps to live, something like the Chrome Web Store and better than what ConsenSys built for Ethereum.
Asking a company whether it uses blockchain or smart contracts is the wrong question, like asking in 2005 whether they used cell phone apps before the iPhone.
The better questions are foundational ones about industry verticals: what agricultural technology, supply chain management or a city adapting to autonomous vehicles actually needs.
Emurgo's New York entrepreneur program and its dLab cohort bring young founders with a fiduciary obligation to actually solve problems.