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General Discussion / Re: What are Github commits?
« on: January 06, 2015, 11:53:41 pm »QuoteIf a DPOS based system is going to succeed it
The bigger issue is that DPOS itself needs to be vetted by some people with a strong cryptography and computer science background. Stellar for example discovered some flaws in their consensus algorithm. It's tough to design and deploy these things and the eventual implementation may be riddled with suboptimal design choices. Bitshares really needs a chief cryptographer to vet both the code and the consensus algo.
You guys also need a quality assurance delegate to review the coding practices, project management, and developer productivity and then write objective reports on some regular basis for the voters to review.
In the long term I agree the above would be great but In order to attract the great minds you are suggesting you need money/adoption/notoriety . It funny when you think about it. You have to push ahead at almost reckless speed in order to get to the point of attracting the above minds,go to slow and you become irrelevant before your ideas hit the market. The entire time trying to hang on and not make to many mistakes along the way.I don't think it has to be one coin/token/asset to rule them all but I do think their are limited spots available.
I think devshares are going to be a important part of the above process. A real playground/proving ground for devs and user's. I don't think its the complete answer but a piece of it that may help us avoid the biggest of mistakes.
What are your thoughts on devshares and how they may fit in?