... What is useful to mention, is that I'm kind of new in the crypto world. So forgive me if certain running gags run straight past me. I'll try to keep up.
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aceherself
Good luck taking over for Snailbrain on these threads, you will need a thick skin.
Here is one piece of advice.
Most recently there was the drama involving as I recall Wiggi and Mithril, both of whom are long time actively involved with Hunter.
My suggestion to Chimaera, and to you as primary conduit of opinions between supporters and developers, is to find a way to bring those two back on board, as a balance to whatever alienated them.
Recently Miramax has been in the news. A large corporation taken over by two brothers who managed to destroy their company because they did not have adequate respect for outside criticism, or circumvented it in a Machiavellian way.
Chimaera is just beginning, in fact has barely started, but it has the potential to be a very significant project, as long as it is forced to listen to all voices, all sides.
I never figured out the exact dispute that alienated previous members of this coin group but I have watched Huc long enough to recognize that it would benefit Chimaera to solve that problem in a way that does not exclude people previously involved with Hunter.
Any group ultimately has to serve its members and when it starts excluding, for whatever reason, any one member then it should give concern to others.
The big difference between fiat and crypto should be ideally that in crypto there is awareness that it is not a gang in charge, that it is not power or ambition that makes decisions.
So if you want to start with a big and difficult project, first figure out what the schism was and find a way to solve it without alienating or excluding any of the people who formed conflicting sides.
Fiat has always been based on the gangster ideal of controlling power by a few "for the greater good". Some little mafia who "knows best" takes control.
Crypto in many cases has repeated that mafia mentality, with a few exceptions. It is the notion that there is always a necessity to sacrifice certain individuals for the sake of the group.
That fiat mentality should be discouraged. It's sort of like how the United States began with a few people trying to find liberty, but has now become a country that imprisons more of its population than most dictatorships, and regularly executes 'lesser' people 'for the benefit of the other people'.
My suggestion would be to take a tiny percentage of the coin and commit it to providing a forum for dissenters, people who for whatever reason are no longer involved. That would set a fair standard for coins like Monero and Ethereum, both of which were built using force, dishonesty etc to grab marketshare.
I'm not criticizing Snailbrain, nor supporting those who left, rather just trying to push the new version of Huc in a sustainable direction. Any group, company, organzation, should be viewed as something that eventually will be sacrificed for individuals, rather than the other way around. It's a point well made in books like Orwell's 1984 and movies like Eco's The Name of the Rose, and many others, but for whatever reason almost always ignored in practice.
