Coin Holder Polling - Instructions

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Thanks for doing this!

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To the person who has voted the following:

All the other options (a,c,d) have potential positive impacts on ZEC. However, after reading posts and interviews, and hearing discussions among Zooko and others, I believe that Zooko has the best interest of ZEC and indeed, all people, in his choices. His opinion should be followed. 3Y

My opinion is that we should not take Zooko for granted. He brought us this far and will probably bring us much further, but token holders need not only to HODL and TRUST; we need to take actual control.

It’s much better to do this smoothly and progressively than wait for the inevitable day when Zooko won’t be there for us. Vitalik has done this very well. He remains a key voice in the ecosystem as it should be, but Ethereum is really led, in part, by the Ethereum Magicians.

btw, I really liked and appreciated this token holders vote. It’s a good starting point. Among the few things we could maybe improve is enable delegation, so people with tokens but not much understanding can delegate their vote to those will less tokens but more understanding. A simple answer of “delegate: t1YscQkLsyT1CroDcq6FXY677PcAc7VzgcS” could do.

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What makes You think that people who have a lot of ZEC understand it less than people who don’t have it? It is presumptuous and not humble to suggest such things. I am glad that such a whale came and said what I wanted to hear. I bought Zcash because I trust a team of professionals. Or I don’t trust them, and then I don’t buy ZEC. If one of us thinks that he understands better than the team, then we have the opportunity to express ourselves in topics, in our blogs, etc. When I wanted to influence decisions, I did just that. People read our arguments and take this or that position. This is an excellent mechanism for the influence of those who have fewer coins on those who have more. If they didn’t choose your arguments, then they weren’t convincing enough and you don’t understand ZEC as well as you think.

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My apologies if I have mistakenly implied this. I do not mean such thing at all. I was making a point that if one wants to delegate their vote, it could be useful to “officially” support such option. This person has essentially decided to delegate part of their vote to Zooko.

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I’ll be honest, just registered in this forum to answer to this post. I haven’t participated in the pool neither. I have a considerable sum of zec and wouldn’t based on anything that was discussed.

  1. if I’m a holder it’s pretty much due ECC involvement in the development.
    I do understand ZF and ZOMG roles (and thank god for them) but don’t think that without ECC manpower we would be where we are today.
  2. it’s no secret that we all believe that we must somehow be in charge since we bought/invest/whatever you want to call it but the vast majority has no 1) technical knowledge 2) inside knowledge about potential partnerships/ potential retail demand.

How I see it is: the decisions can be made by the entire community if the community is provided with all the facts, this poll is ok to understand where some fate lies but that’s pretty much that.
I don’t think it makes sense to vote in something without knowledge of possible development dependencies, technical effort in each one and most important, real impact.

I’ll assume everyone here has the same goal of improving and enhance zcash network and the only reason why most of this arguments are daily raised is due the weak price movements.
In any other project, zebra and nu5 would be major improvements that could leverage the network for infinite possibilities, when I read this forum looks like it’s not enough and only see people flaming each other.

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That’s a fair point of view. Personally I find it critical to have all key members of this project having a voice and a way of steering the project. Key members being founders, employees, token holders, community members, or even outsiders at times (Vitalik, etc).

Those who don’t have a clue should maybe refrain from voting. Those who are following from a distance and trust specific members could delegate their vote to them. And those who are following things closely enough could certainly vote themselves.

ECC is and will very likely remain a fundamental piece of the project, just like Zooko is an awesome lead of the project and hopefully will remain so for a long time. Still, we should prepare for alternatives should they ever be needed, and they most certainly will eventually.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

btw, as a token holder with a “considerable sum of zec”, maybe you will find the following interesting:

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