/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54965271
To be fair to the anon you are arguing with, Monero has not yet experienced a co-opting campaign at the scale of Blockstream. If Cake were to build a team of 10,20, 50+ full time software engineers and tech leads, they could output so much useful software for the Monero ecosystem that they could absolutely co-opt Monero development in a short amount of time.

Luckily for Monero, we can learn from the Blockstream "attack" and develop some contingency plans.

Here is my pleb contingency plan to stop Blockstream type of attacks :

>The monero community should finance the creation of non-profit organizations
>these non-profit organizations must be incorporated with legal agreements that force them to use donor funds to run monero nodes/ miners
>The non-profit must be legally required to run only protocol updates that strictly adhere to the Monero community philosophy
>running a Monero fork that violates any of these updates comes with heavy legal penalties

I know this would open a new can of worms when it comes to governments co-opting or coercing these organizations, but I think diversifying the jurisdiction of these organizations could help mitigate some of these risks.

I am sure someone in the higher ranges of IQ has thought a better contingency plan but this is just my 2 cents