Proposal: Permit transfer of neuron ownership

[jwiegley]

@ImagineChadParadigm

I must be transparent – for whatever reason, it feels like such a suggestion during a market puke is nefarious in nature John. It just seems a bit odd to bring this up now. You can surely reference several other posts you have made historically. But this looks like the first post you have made on the forum dedicated to this suggestion (I could be 100% lying here – I’ll go back and read through all your posts. If someone says otherwise, please don’t hesitate to correct me) However, I’d imagine you are a large stakeholder ICP regardless of your affiliations with other projects. You’ve poured your blood, sweat and tears into this project surely – and I take your word you want to see this project succeed.

Hope this makes sense. I could be completely off the deep end in my thought. Extremely grateful for what you have done for ICP and our community, John. You have always been a shining light in what feels like a heavily one-sided bureaucracy. Really just want to voice my opinion in the rawest form.

I appreciate the directness, @ImagineChadParadigm. I actually presented this idea on an internal Notion page at DFINITY several months before launch, so it has been on my mind for quite some time. The other day in the thread New protocol rewards thoughts - #3 by jwiegley someone brought up an idea for improving participation by changing rewards, and there I presented this idea of neuron trading as a way to (possibly) increase participation without touching rewards at all. Then I thought, why not, I’ll present the proposal in a fuller form and solicit feedback to see what people’s ideas are.

I am very much committed to the long-term success of our network, and have no desire to sell my 8 year neurons at a discount. What I would hope to see from this proposal is that an ability to trade money for time would shift the population of neuron holders from seed investors who may not have a great deal of interest in governance, to those willing to buy tranches of those neurons at a discount in order to increase their own voting power.