During the interview, Todd summarized why having
users vote for changes to Bitcoin's consensus rules would be an improvement over miner voting:
«The pipe dream of some in the Bitcoin community is to govern the system by having ordinary
users vote for changes by adopting the corresponding full node software.
The pipe dream of some in the Bitcoin community is to govern the system by having ordinary
users vote for changes by adopting the corresponding full node software.
Not exact matches
If over 30 % of Facebook's active
users, or 230 million people,
vote for the
changes they'll go into effect, and if they
vote against they'll be scrapped.
Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer
for Policy Erin Egan told me yesterday the company will consider
changing its site governance
voting system to discourage
votes being triggered by low - quality comments and adapt to the growing size of Facebook's
user base.
But it took direct action from EU privacy campaigner Max Schrems to force Facebook to put the proposed
changes up
for a worldwide
vote — by mobilizing opinion online and triggering a long standing Facebook policy governance clause (which the company couldn't exactly ignore, even as the structure of the clause essentially made it impossible
for a
user vote to block the
changes).