To get people to engage with principles in a more high resolution way. Why?
To increase our individual and collective ability to think about these things. Why?
To make sure we are building the right thing in the right way. Why?
To give access to better tools to socially coordinate, communicate and transact. Why?
To increase liberty for everyone.
Status
The goal of Status is widespread adoption of the decentralized web. Our challenge is achieving mass adoption while staying true to our principles outlined below.
The software we create is a public good. It is made available via a free and open source license, for anyone to share, modify and benefit from. We believe in permission-less participation.
Public goods
Excludable
Nonexcludable
Rival
food
fish in sea
Nonrival
private parks
air
Public goods (cont)
Anyone can use it
Antifragile torrent files
Networks, not stovepipes
Free license
Freedom to run, study, share and modify code
Status LLC gone? Software survives
Permission-less
Anyone able to participate in creation
Ethereum nodes
Less coordination (just contribute!)
Open to unique perspective
Free culture vs permission culture
Principles pairing
Like pairing wine and food. That's where the real discussion happens.
thesis + antithesis => synthesis
(openness, security)
Free modification => risk of malicious versions
Mitigations: reputation, signed binaries
Scope: under Security
(openness, continuance)
Using individual SNT (private good) to keep the public good public and good?
"Build Status with Status"
(openness, privacy)
Certain legal agreements require salary information to be private, how does that interact with open compensation models?
(openness, liberty)
Live in a world where people benefit freely?
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety – Ben Franklin
Wall of shame
A conversation starter.
Changing code requires privileges
License situation unclear: some CC0, some not
Cluster repo private, harder to participate
Slack and GDocs, closed and permissioned
Network non-rival good?
Thanks!
With that, handing it over to the facilitator. Coming up: next speaker, open discussion, wall of shame generation, and more.