The RChain Cooperative Newsletter | December 14th, 2017

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RChain Announces First Blockchain Governance Conference - February 2018


 Michael Birch created this simulation to visualize RChain's CBC- Casper approach(3 Nodes)


The RChain Cooperative will be hosting its first Blockchain Governance conference February 15th-18th, 2018. Full agenda agenda and location will be announced shortly.

 

What’s Blockchain Governance?

“Blockchain Governance” can be described as the process’s for consensus building on a given distributed network, that includes the network’s political/socioeconomic dynamics. It requires technical acumen as well as consensus building models.  

An example of such a decision was, “The DAO just got hacked, should we hard fork?”

The subjects need for dedicated research groups is made apparent when major decisions such as this are thrust onto a community, abruptly, and with major stakes on the line. But the subject is more broad reaching then rallying against malicious actors. Examples of that are contentious hard forks that arent because of bad actors, but are still the cause of passionate discourse, such as the segwit fork on the Bitcoin protocol.

RChain Board Member and notable Casper PoS lead, Vlad Zamfir had this summary(tweet) of governance in a recent post Some thoughts on blockchain governance

“So governance may just be a a process of persuasion and discovering what your peers believe in order to compromise and have enough consensus ...to implement a change that is perceived to be valuable at some acceptable level of risk”

One of the key action items for this conference (a Vlad recommendation) is the drafting of a principle set that will be formalized into, what we are calling, The Declaration of Interdependence.

 

This document will describe the RChain’s

  • approach to Blockchain Governance
  • use of Casper Proof-of-stake consensus protocol,
  • approach to community governance
  • the use of the platform.coop models and decision making process’ derived from sociocracy and other experimental governance/DAO models.

 

We aim to answer important concerns such as “what constitutes a quorum and whether abstention or "no" is the default choice. “

Look forward to more details and RSVP information.

On the note of consensus building, The Correct-by-Construction Casper work is going very well. In this exerpt from a recent hangout Michael Birch, RChain CBC-Casper dev, describes the Casper simulation he is working on.

A full post has been drafted with feedback from prominent members of the research community. Look forward to the release of that content, as well as much more, starting early January all throughout the Mercury release and beyond.

 
RChain Developer Wiki
 

Latest Community Debriefs

Every Wednesday at 11AM PST, the team joins in a hangout that streams to RChain’s YouTube channel.

Below are timestamps with accompanying documents from the past two debriefing hangouts.

December 6th - Community Debrief 54

 - Introduction | Medha gives development updates

 - Intro to Jeremey, DevOps

 - Mike Stay presents Namespace documentation

 - Greg discuss’ a demo of RChain with exchange developers

 - John Culcer introduction to the team for platform.coop relations

 - Board meeting highlights


November 29th - Community Debrief 53

 - Greg Introduction | Business opportunities in music and more

 - Medha gives development updates

 - Michael Birch shares Casper simulation 

          - CBC Casper in Wiki

 - Mike Stay and Greg Discuss Namespaces 

          - Namespace in Wiki

 - Greg gives more organization updates

 - Ed gives updates on RChain Holdings Inc.

 - The Blockchain Governance conference

In Other News

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More Information
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Join the membership through member.rchain.coop.

Collaborators are welcome on Github/rchain/members.

Engage directly in the conversations around the cooperative every Wednesday at 11AM(PDT) during the community debrief. 

Best regards and "e pluribus unum"

 - The RChain Cooperative

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