1/ Now you understand why in some voting systems, privacy is important. It's exactly to avoid some people attacking you for your own opinion. We should continue to speak up but just be prepared to be blocked.
2/ In politics, parties fight a lot, everywhere, just in close rooms, sometimes this leaks in television. On public forums related to politics people call each other idiots all the time. IMHO, you can only control ethics / empathy of this because discourse is unavoidable and in fact healthy and necessary. Other ecosystems solve this problem by not having governance and letting foundations take all critical and important decisions. As long as those foundations are around...
3/ IO let go of quite a few people in this bear market, some people joined CF, others kept, yet some other working on Midnight.
4/ In a way, we reached a state that Cardano Community is literally like "a decentralised board of an organisation", that as always by design. So if you vote a not to a proposal (there maybe a team at IO that will literally have to pack up), this is the same like a Board in an organisation, Oracle Board letting go of 30.000 people. There is no difference other than Cardano Community and ADA Holders are the board.
5/ My personal gut feeling (I could be wrong) is that some proposals from I/O especially are more to save more people from being let go. So I do not want to defend CH for behaving like he is but to some extend this is like being a general and you have troops (employees on a payroll at IO), so if certain proposals are not funded you may have to let go the teams. If not then your stress and misbehavior is in fact because you as a leader (CH) will have a choice - do I keep them on my payroll and pay them salary and 'burn money' or do I let them go. So in a way this passion, that many attribute to immature behaviour could in fact be empathy to own employees. A sceptic could argue that IO could finance this out of their own balance sheet but obviously since this is private company we have no idea how healthy it is or not (there is no Reeve for I/O). It's a private company after all. It does not mean the acting and tantrums of CH are justified at all, in fact it only shows how difficult is to do this job and that such a difficult position requires more professional training and empathy and self control.
6/ As for Blockfrost proposal, there are different aspects there, there is keeping team alive but also decentralisation. My vision is very similar to
@santicarmuega with Super Node, where SPOs can just install additional nodes and run them but then via P2P or some mechanism those nodes would be discoverable in the network. Personally I would prefer to invest more into Super Node than specifically blockfrost. Super Node idea is very generic, it applies to Koios, Yaci-Store, Blockfrost, Dolos as much as to others.
7/ I really like Formal Verification proposal from IO and this is worth investing as well as Cardano Updates proposal. 13 13 mln ADA each.
8/ As for Hydra / Midgard, I think it is also worth to invest but not now, simply timing is not right for this. L2 typically is needed when you have L1 saturated and we have
@fluxpointstudio that are iterating and trying our some partner chain, we will have Midnight, it is not like we do not have options (maybe not L2s) but we have partner chains for high frequency apps. Hydra still has a lot to do but it is already quite usable for certain class of problems (unfortunately minority for now).
9/ Cardano DevExp proposal for 3 mln ADA I do not like, because we have tons of work already done on
developers.cardano.org, we have Yaci-Store done by
@satran004 and supported by
@Cardano_CF. We also have Aiken Book from John Green, tutorials, a book by
@elraulito. It is simply way too expensive for tutorials and more importantly there is already a lot of work being done by CF employees on DevExp. In fact I would say comparing to 3 years ago, DevExp is now on another level on Cardano and smooth experience (of course can always be improved).
10/ A large software vendor also often has similar challanges as IO and then they often in harsh market conditions or when loosing a major client they have to find work items outside. New clients, to survive and then once market conditions improve maybe win back a client. It is not always so easy as knowledge you may have is very specialised. In a way employees and organisations work in a waterfall way and agility is very hard.
So it is not all doom and gloom, there are IMHO good proposals from I/O and timing is right for them. I do not envy Charles his job to be honest, I personally do not know if I would have guts / stamina and temper (I doubt it) to do this myself, however, unfortunately such positions require you to be almost like a robot. Put emotions aside and understand that now in terms of Governance Cardano Community is the "Board" and control of the ecosystem is in people's and dReps hands.
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