@Leamsi thank you for revealing that you are a real person. I will not dox you, but maybe you want to dox yourself, to help people understand you.
Leamsi told me this:
Just to let you know. I’m [real name redacted], have zero investments in Crypto, and love the IC vision. I’d like it to succeed and can only see it doing so if it addresses its governance red flags.
I will accept this statement as being made in good faith until proven otherwise. Leamsi, thank you for showing me you are not another paid troll. However, we do not want any more conspiracy theory-style investigations into the DFINITY Foundation or its governance on our social media.
For those happening upon this thread, I will repeat: the Internet Computer blockchain is fully controlled by a permissionless transparent DAO, called the Network Nervous System (NNS). The governance and control of the Internet Computer is fully automated and decentralized, by design. Anyone can propose improvements, for example by submitting motions to gather support for a particular idea, followed by the submission of compiled code that upgrades the protocol, which if adopted, will be automatically applied to the node machines hosting the network. Through the NNS, the network adaptively improves not just its efficiency, speed, functionality, and tokenomics, but also NNS governance, recursively. It is a self-improving network, and this is one of the reasons it is succeeding. Anyone can participate, either by submitting proposals, or by staking ICP and creating voting neurons.
For these reasons, it is wrong to conflate the governance of the decentralized Internet Computer network, which is self-governing, with the governance of the DFINITY Foundation. We are an independent not-for-profit organization that pursues a purpose, which is essentially 1. helping bootstrap the Internet Computer ecosystem, 2. developing World Computer technology and contributing it for use within the ecosystem, and 3. supporting ecosystem participants, with the ultimate overall objective of helping the ecosystem succeed as soon as possible, and driving what we call a “blockchain singularity”. We are not an ICAAN (the organization that plays a key role governing the internet), don’t want that role, and the network has been specifically designed to operate independently of an organization.
Inside the NNS, which is a kind of autonomous liquid democracy, many people do configure their “voting neurons” to automatically follow the votes of our voting neurons. For this reason, we often do not vote, to avoid accusations we somehow “forced” the outcome, albeit we do think our input matters, and people can unfollow us at any time. Thankfully, other named neurons are gaining prominence too, and are getting followed, which process we actively encourage. Mainnet is only 18 months old, and we expect this to continue for many years. But the DFINITY the organization is not somehow part of the decentralized Internet Computer network.
Although DFINITY is a not-for-profit organization, with no members or shareholders, which pursues a defined purpose rather than profits, we pursue our purpose very competitively, like a tech startup. We are passionate and relentless. Working here is not he same as working in Big Tech. We exist within a tech war-zone. We need to be agile and decisive. We need to keep some aspects of our operations secret to succeed. We need to defend ourselves against near-criminal blockchain “competitors” and their attacks (see the investigative journalism site CryptoLeaks.info, whose reports reflect only a small fraction of what we face). In practice, the foundation council just rubber stamps high-level administrative functions two or three times a year. However, I make no excuses for being founder, Chief Scientist and President of the council. We are a startup, not IBM.
One day we may be nearer reaching our objectives and the market will be more mature. We might be more like a corporation that effectively tends a farm on territory won long ago. That day, we might become a sleepy organization run by a committee. Or we might simply dissolve DFINITY and ask the NNS to take over direct decentralized employment of our team. But we are certainly not ready for that now, and have many more pressing matters to focus on. Having “investigations” of our governance on our forums is distracting and demoralizing.
So, I repeat, no more discussion of this here. Thank you.