Author Topic: Should we Abandon Proof of Stake Marketing?  (Read 16277 times)

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Offline merivercap

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DAO is fine.  What's wrong with 'Community' @btswolf ?
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proof of vote

Yes, if you want to describe BitShares you probably need the terms "voting" or "election" and these words suggest democracy.
So what do we actually have? Voting Shares based Consensus - VSC ?

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I already avoid trying to name BitShares a DAC (Company) because that`s in my jurisdiction definitely a legal term.
As far as I know Organization is not a legal term per se, at least not in my country.
But yes, everybody is free to use his own favorite term to describe it.
I just don`t like to use DAC (Community) at the moment, but that may change in future...

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We are indeed treated like a pariah in the cryptoworld, but I don't think much of it stems from the name DPOS.
IMO, the problem lies much deeper.

Anyway, if we change DPOS to something else, this would be the most likely reaction:
"You see? They're trying to hide the problems we were talking about."

While actually the opposite is true: we have not identified any fatal problems and DPOS has proved to be something much more powerful than anybody could've expected 2 years ago.

If we can afford changing names, I think the name "BitShares" is our biggest marketing liability.
Never too late to fix it...

There should be something to back the change of name, otherwise it doesn't make sense from a marketing perspective. I really don't see the project changing the name honestly although I guess that could be up for voting...

Curious to see what would happen if we did one though, and launched with a nice prediction markets UI and bond markets. Curious, but don't see it happening.
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Delegated Proof of Stake gets Proof by Elected Delegates, PED.

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You need to have a white paper discussing the byzantine tolerance, the possible attack vectors, the mitigation, the game theory etc etc - then you will at least have something to direct people towards.
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We are indeed treated like a pariah in the cryptoworld, but I don't think much of it stems from the name DPOS.
IMO, the problem lies much deeper.

Anyway, if we change DPOS to something else, this would be the most likely reaction:
"You see? They're trying to hide the problems we were talking about."

While actually the opposite is true: we have not identified any fatal problems and DPOS has proved to be something much more powerful than anybody could've expected 2 years ago.

If we can afford changing names, I think the name "BitShares" is our biggest marketing liability.
Never too late to fix it...

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"delegated proof of stake" doesn't pass the message of the governance model we have. Proof of Stake for me is where users have their stake on the wallets and produce more or at least that's the basic idea i guess.

We are beyond that. What the name should suggest is the current governance model where everyone even with a single BitShare can vote in the future of BitShares. That it's easier to reach consensus because you can simply vote thing up or not with a simple click. With that click, people choose where the money is spent and used. Their vote counts. Their stake counts and has an influence in the future.

You don't need to run a node or be a miner,- that most people might not know how to do -  you can do that with a simple click. It's accessible to anyone.
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What about just remove the POS and just say Delegated Consensus? 

...also Organizational Consensus?

As btswolf just mentioned DAO/DAC might be the key phrase to stress since didn't you coin the term anyways?  If it would be good to emphasize that... the first ever DAO/DAC. I think Decentralized Autonomous Community might be preferred over 'Company' for legal reasons and it will attract more people...

BTW My go-to line in explaining DPOS/POS: 'Millions of corporations and organizations use this (or operate this way) today ..'  Seems to have worked the few times I used it, even to someone who seemed like a hardline Bitcoin maximalist.


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On Twitter, since 2016 there is only one mention of BitShares in combination with DPOS.
DPOS also wasn`t mentioned in the latest press releases of CCEDk.
So actually it is already abandoned.
I don`t see at all why we should use terms like pow, pos and dpos to describe BitShares.
Those words mean nothing to non-crypto people and we don`t have to put our self in any of those categories for stereotyped thinking.
We are BitShares, BTS, a blockchain based DAO.
That`s it.

Offline bytemaster

Proof of Stake seems to mean different things to different people. The early POS systems where flawed. In most of the discussions on POS I see people throwing out strawmen.  Even worse, people won't give anything with a POS label the time of day, they have already written it off.

So when we say DPOS we automatically lose people. We need to get through people's knee jerk reactions.

So I am curious if there is another way to describe DPOS consensus without using POS.
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