Inaugural SF Decred Meetup

Cryptocurrencies are deeply rooted in open source culture and, as a result, have traditionally relied on informal governance structures to guide project direction. This type of informal governance has led to long-running clashes between miners, users and developers over questions like:

• Who gets to decide what features are added to the project?
• How does the project fund future development?
• How are disputes within the project resolved?

Decred is attempting to solve these problems by creating a network that aligns the incentives of all stakeholders and by forging new mediums for open source coordination.

In Decred, both the work of miners and stakers is required to apend blocks to its ledger, creating better checks and balances system between users, miners, and developers. Stakeholders are also able to vote on consensus rule changes and off-chain governance initiatives, such as allocating the network treasury through proposals on Politeia.

We're excited to explore Decred alongside the Decred Dev team, as well as Chris Burniske and Alex Evans from Placeholder Ventures.

Thank you to Blockchain Capital for graciously hosting us!

Agenda:

6:30 — 7:00: Doors open and Networking
7:00 — 7:30: Introduction to Decred
7:30 — 8:00: Placeholder VC presents an overview of Decred's recent network growth (hash rate, staking utilization, Politeia proposals, etc).
8:00 — 9:00: Drinks, Snacks and Networking

Please come join us for an evening of camaraderie and conversation!

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Come prepared with an understanding of the latest developments from the Decred project: https://medium.com/decred/decred-journal-january-2019-358943759f79