Done, and locked so you can’t accidentally progress further in the future.
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Thank you very much!
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Does Discourse have built-in support for two-factor authentication (2FA)? Maybe if forced, a few extra steps can help plus its slightly more secure.
Yes accounts have the option to add 2FA themselves. It’s a good idea, just not something that is mandatory for all accounts.
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Not quite sure where to say this so I’ll do it here. As expected, with the progress of AI, it’s becoming ever easier to swarm a project with endless debates; it’s a great angle of attack.
It’s ever more annoying to be a stakeholder here because before devs were barely paying attention to us, and now their attention may be even more split between legitimate stakeholders and potential attacks on us.
There’s been a great lack of foresight on this subject at all levels in here. Zooko’s suggestion to weight accounts based on donations and such was an idea in the right direction. Nobody else is suggesting any solution, just planting their head in the sand as if we don’t have a problem.
PoS can’t come soon enough.
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Of ZEC, time in forum, or dev work? How would you quantify this 
Yes. We need a space for stakeholders only. I want a space to speak to fellow substantial stakeholders (others are welcome, but I’d be looking for 21000+). I have no interest speaking to anyone else for a long time now, but I have no choice. That’s where I’m at.
Hmm a coin gated VIP forum is cool I suppose. I dont mind different subspaces for similar feathered folk to talk. Couldn’t we do that HERE in the forums though?
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It doesn’t have to be VIP at all, actually I’d rather it be not that. There just has to be a way so that large stakeholders can recognize each others. Here or anywhere really, and yes, having the debate being public would be beneficial to all.
We can create hidden categories that can be permissioned with users in certain groups. So theoretically we could make “whale lounge” per say.
Or just creating a group similar to @ ZcashGrants that has certain users in it.
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That’s good. Next problem is to get stakeholders on the table. If we’d have this, that would certainly quickly bring a lot of clarity into the way forward stakeholders want to see.
Stakeholders being able to organize would certainly unlock an accelerated pace of progress and less uncertainty, imo.
Wouldn’t this contradict your concerns with opsec?
Good question but I don’t think it has to be a problem, particularly with Zcash.
Anyone can join under whatever username they want and prove a stake that has no connection to anything. Not saying that we shouldn’t design this carefully or that participants don’t need to take their opsec seriously, but I don’t see any major blocking issues.
That is, aside from the fact that the only way I know how to do this is by using a public address like I do, but hopefully there’s a way.
public address in bio
The real measure of “skin in the game” here is how much time someone has put into this project, not how much cash they’ve been able to accumulate through whatever means or for however many generations.
That’s not making any sense. How can you come up with something so impossible to implement.
Anyway, as for me, I’m in crypto for the Sybil resistance and long term vision.
Apologies for pulling a joke but did you just wake up from a coma? Because, sorry to bring you the bad news but, the GPG web of trust never took off.
Fair, but I’m not proposing ‘GPG WoT 2.0’, just the idea that trust should be based on demonstrated contributions (time, work, reputation), not token balance. GPG failed on adoption/UX, not on the underlying need. Holdings are easy to buy; credibility takes time. We can innovate here without repeating those UX mistakes.
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