EIP: Democratic Governance - Users, Devs & Miners

[Grayman]

I read the discussion here after posting on this other thread: On Network Security and Number of Honest Actors Assuming a Finite Potential Hashrate - #5 by Grayman

I appreciate the nuanced conversation and thought, folks. I think that you are onto something important, and it needs to be hammered out over time. I transmit my comment here to join the discussion:

@Grayman

Maybe it should work like this:

Anyone can propose changes to the platform in the form of a provisional EIP (pEIP), here in this forum.

After a period of discussion, the terms of such an EIP could be put to a vote among the users of the blockchain. Users that wish to spend their governance tokes on the pEIP may do so, and vote for or against the pEIP.

If the pEIP reaches a certain threshold of upvotes, then the concerned parties should develop an EIP, work with the core devs to implement it, and then the miners vote on implementation as always.

The governance tokens would get distributed via a pseudo-randomized weighting of the volume of transactions between various wallets, with some anti-spam tactics. I also think such governance tokens should expire after a time.

So, no changes can be proposed to the platform without community discussion and consensus… but no changes can be implemented to the platform without the miners voting it in. This is a conservative approach, but gives a proper voice to the people I think…