MEW - Operational Executive speaking1. The official documents
MEW has the following documents:
- Articles of Association (AA)
- Initial Decisions with Nominations (ID)
- membership list with ranks and votes (Votelist)
Furthermore:
- Every voting will be made a memo that lists the voters and the result.
- Every Executive (and preferably everyone else who actively works in MEW) will summarize his actions periodically.
To have all these important things posted duly, we'd need a bulletin board. The logical place for such a board is this forum. Possible ways for finding the board are to:
- have it as a thread with very little other content (hard, since interesting content draws discussion)
- post it only in the name of MEW main account, so that it can be searched by poster (not all do this habitually and may miss it).
IRC should have a feature for listing files, also a Google Drive and own website, even push email-list are possibilities. I invite all members to discussion concerning these. We want to select more than one, but not an overwhelming number of official channels for one-way information. Then we need 1-2 channels for group discussion. I am not at all sure that the IRC selected is an all-purpose tool. For discussions that require dispensing of thought, a forum would be better. Luckily there is a no-troll Monero Forum already available, I have been told. The management of user rights is a pain anyway, since we are talking about a large number of users.
2. MEW prong #1 - Providing a stake-based voting system
We are currently getting the basics right for voting. If something needs to be passed quickly, the rules allow 51% of
all votes to do it in no time at all. If the issue is both important, popular, and in a rush, we don't have a problem with reaching a legitimate conclusion, but the voting experience for most of the small members will be quite tough as they are simply ignored once the required number of votes is reached.
What we do need now, is the tools for fact- and votepower-based discussion. IRC constrains the expression of facts due to the format. Forums should need moderation in the order of posting etc. to make the discussion go on smoothly. (Even ordinary meetings have had chairman always, there is a role that needs to be fulfilled if something is to be achieved.) Then the voting itself has several options how to make it happen.
As soon as the general forum for discussion is generally available, there will be at least one of the proposals up for vote.
3. MEW prong #2 - Providing a decentralized yet coordinated power platform for ideas to enhance Monero economy
This also needs much nurturing. What we are doing here is not according to the way that everyone has been conditioned to do since childhood. Many members have approached me with offers to help in whatever is possible, which is good, but currently I am not that much up to my task that I could have given them the work. With our
Agora program incubator running, it will be easier for these people to do something.
Some have approached me with a specific peripheral project, and I have tried to direct them to work with others. This has caused even resentment. Folks, please, I cannot work in every project, more likely in no project at all. I would be much more content if I could do all my current responsibilities instead of taking projects where I would not be a good match really.
I wish (just for balancing the previous examples) that some people would also grasp much more power than the average guy, and would form strong groups inside MEW to push their agendas and projects. This would energize all to be more vigilant. But please do this activism only in connection with the increase of our "governance tools" of chats, forums, voting systems etc. Trying to pull to different directions when no such systems are in place is damaging and destructive.
To grasp the magnitude of change, the previously 7-membered core team now has a helper named MEW with over 50 members. Organizing such a bunch of people in any school of organizing though available, is not easy, nor happens overnight. But it will happen sooner than you think, and yield surprisingly good results.
4. My doings past and future- I will be putting things for vote as soon as the voting system is reasonably ready
- David is appointed to be my hotel manager in Malla, soon 2 other guys who are interested in cryptocurrency join him
- The XMR emission change cat is out of the bag and situation is causing confusion and price/adoption weakness until it's resolutely resolved.
1) No one is proposing to increase emission, that's just FUD. The only proposal is to make the curve
slower, but ending in the same number
2) If emission is
not changed, and adoption does not increase quickly, XMR will be perceived a premine
in 2 years3) If emission
is changed, XMR will be perceived premine
now, albeit likely will a smaller % of relevant people
4) Trolls feast on the topic, saying "doomed if you do, doomed if you don't".
Forget them! Just read the Initial Arguments (being prepared) from both sides, and take part of the discussion, and vote, and act responsibly.
5)
The economic majority decision is most likely the better one, and will lead to best adoption in the future. (In the extreme parlance, would you like 1/3 of the holders to sell their coins? No, of course not. So why do you insist on taking the risk that
2/3 do it??!?) Current price has already discounted the worst situation which is continued uncertainty and trolls keeping us from taking action. Let's not let them!
6) No matter which way the vote goes, I will continue as a large owner of XMR. No other coin comes even close to XMR and BTC in overall evaluation, and I have no desires to own anything else except them. Perfect is the enemy of best, and by sticking to perfect only (instead of best available), I would have never done anything worthwhile and profitable.
- Partly due to BTC weakness that has decimated the purchasing power of my net worth, I will seriously consider sending a bulletin to my list, with the intention to make OTC deals and commissions. I have said this several times already, but not done it. Last time I sent was more than a year ago. If I do, and mention XMR, the liquidity impact to the market with hardly any asks will be huge.
- Please ask me if there is anything!
My mission for the next 48 hours:
- Make the MEW internal communication more functional and open the first thing for vote
