Let me explain again why I was harsh (which I stand by): Blocktown’s proposal reflected such ignorance of context that it was disrespectful to everyone involved so far. Blocktown’s desired arrangement contradicts the principles that we’ve been painstakingly, arduously implementing for more than a year.
When I say “we,” I don’t just mean the Foundation, nor do I mean the Foundation and ECC. I mean all of us. I mean the people who took hours and hours of their personal lives to debate this, to keep up with the copious relevant information, to write and iterate on proposals based on community feedback. The arrogance of Blocktown showing up, apparently without even skimming the megathread, is astounding. Compare to Placeholder, another VC firm — Placeholder did the homework.
I’m not saying that everyone needs to do a full-on research project before drafting a proposal. I’m saying, if you draft a proposal without knowing what the realistic constraints are, I’m gonna be irritated. I refuse to pretend that low-quality work is actually high-quality — Zcash is too important for that.
It’s one thing when someone is confused by, say, the ZIP process, or when someone demonstrates that they tried to catch up on context but missed something. That’s valuable UX feedback, in fact! It’s a whole different ball of wax when they’re like, “Here’s my plan. ZIP process? What’s that?”