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Re: [ANN] • CYGNUS • [CYG] • X11 POW/POS • Consensus Polls • Dynamic Development
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danonthehill
on 03/03/2016, 10:39:16 UTC
From now we are accepting proposals for our first consensus poll, you can submit them here.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1elhnm-RwM1-p56s7Jc08W-oATyRJ97BU63_7Ds_26Bg/viewform

The first poll will start at 23rd of March with the most requested topics from your proposals.
For the first poll we will release a wallet update which will have the Poll tab, you will be able to cast your votes there. Votes for the first poll will not be cast on blockchain yet, we scheduled to implement -on blockchain- voting for the April poll.
We contacted zsnorbi OP should update soon with the link and the additional details.

May I suggest adding the ability to create a poll to that tab, so that feature is decentralized also. 
Can you please elaborate a little bit more detailed on what do you mean?


Yes. Since the idea of the coin seems to be dynamic development, decentralization, self governance etc., it might be a good idea to allow the community to create their own polls in the wallet, not just vote on poll submitted by the dev, so that in the event that you disappear or get hit by a bus, the coin will have a mechanism for making decisions regarding future development via blockchain voting.

With this is in mind, I am thinking that one proposal for the 1st poll, might be to implement some self-governance features, DASH & Decred seem to be most obvious examples of this, but difficult to give the coin value with a straight up clone, so really needs to be discussed to find good solution i.e. something that is not too difficult to implement, but will give this coin something unique.  Anyone have any ideas?

That's a pretty cool idea to allow people to create polls. Of course it would suck to see some really stupid questions up there but it would be cool. If anything, this thread can serve as the place where people hash out ideas and the wallet where things stemming from those discussions are decided.

IMO it's an extremely bad idea it makes absolutely no sense to inflate block sizes into infinity to fit in them dozens of useless polls. Also if dev will be hit by a bus like you mentioned, the coin development must be taken over so in that case the new developer will control the polls, in other case if it would be never taken over again there would be no use of any poll. So from my point people creating polls on blockchain is highly unwanted and non beneficial.

Actually, DarkNet has ability to make polls at cost of 50 DNET, so dozens spam does not occur.  (Fork of DASH with quark algo) If development is truly dynamic, then development needs to happen in real time.  DNET has the edge and has been added to Bittrex because development is visibly happening as a result of this process and a visibly active dev.