Digital Energy 🇺🇲🇸🇬

A few things I learned from posting SGP-1 yesterday: The 15% network stake threshold is good and robust. I know quite viscerally now what it takes to wrangle that much stake and some n00b with a shit proposals isn't going to get anywhere close. We are not going to over vote. Permissionless voting systems are unpredictable. SGP-2 and 3 went out the gate, before SGP-1 simply because they could launch it at any time they wanted, and I missed it because I was coming back from my communist holiday and not looking at Telegram. Synchronisation of votes is going to need to be a thing, to avoid voter apathy. Frankly for a while, I thought we were totally rekt and we'd miss this entire batch of votes entirely, but late at night I found a transaction from the svmgov protocol, that showed that SGP2 and 3's elevation completed just inside the current epoch. There was still time. I had to freeze the final commit of SGP-1 get a hash of it's contents, compile the CLI instructions and hand them off to our eng team who control the Jito validators. Now, accessing critical validator keys is no small thing, and it's going to take a while for operators to get 'vote ready.' Even just operationally, who's going to do it, who's going to decide how we vote etc. There's overhead to this. Governance doesn't come for free. 7 epochs to get vote ready. The validator community in Solana are a great bunch. The proposals pushed in my night time and by the time i'd woke up we had about 12 hours to rustle up about 13% of network stake. A good number of the community leaped up to help @Bryan_TitanA and @BusinessMngr in particular were absolute legends and I don't think it would have happened if people like @cavemanloverboy hadn't throw in immediate support while I was sleeping. Validators live in scattered backchannels and across every time zone in the world. Not all of them are locked in, everywhere all the time. Modern decentralised governance requires multi-modal content, explanations, personal outreach, one on one and multi channel comms. Hit every channel every"where, just maximise the probability that messages will get through, and then be high consensus enough to trigger action. If your prop has low consensus, you won't have much chance. There's nothing quite like a stake race. Epoch boundaries rushing in, people to coordinate, cryptographically hard deadlines. It's actually great coordination training. Solana and every other network will go through crisis moments (and there's been a few before my time) and they require coordinated action. Planetary scale cat herding is going to be needed for all sorts of stuff in the future and doing periodic votes like this will get that process down better every time. "Decentralisation is a muscle" as the wise @brian_smith_0 often says. Also, it's literally insane what you can get done in 48 hours with a team of clankers. World is about to change.