Moving beyond coin voting governance
中文翻译参考(⭐️@mengdi liao 推荐)： https://www.ethereum.cn/Ecosystem/moving-beyond-coin-voting-governance
Special thanks to Karl Floersch, Dan Robinson and Tina Zhen for feedback and review. See also Notes on Blockchain Governance, Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad, On Collusion and Coordination, Good and Bad for earlier thinking on similar topics.
特别感谢Karl Floersch、Dan Robinson和Tina Zhen的反馈和审查。参见《区块链治理笔记》、《治理，第二部分：财阀统治仍是坏事》、《论勾结与协调，好与坏》，了解早期对类似话题的思考。
One of the important trends in the blockchain space over the past year is the transition from focusing on decentralized finance (DeFi) to also thinking about decentralized governance (DeGov). While the 2020 is often widely, and with much justification, hailed as a year of DeFi, over the year since then the growing complexity and capability of DeFi projects that make up this trend has led to growing interest in decentralized governance to handle that complexity. There are examples inside of Ethereum: YFI, Compound, Synthetix, UNI, Gitcoin and others have all launched, or even started with, some kind of DAO. But it's also true outside of Ethereum, with arguments over infrastructure funding proposals in Bitcoin Cash, infrastructure funding votes in Zcash, and much more.
在过去的一年里，区块链领域显现出一个重要趋势：人们从关注去中心化金融 (DeFi) 过渡到同时思考去中心化治理 (DeGov)。2020 年 DeFi 的发展方向十分宽泛，被称为 DeFi 之年。自那时起 DeFi 项目的复杂性不断增加以及性能不断提高，因此人们对于 DeGov 的研究兴趣日益增强，以应对 DeFi 这种复杂性。在以太坊中有一些例子：YFI、Compound、Synthetix、UNI、Gitcoin 以及其他项目都推出了/准备推出 DAO。还有以太坊之外的一些例子：Bitcoin Cash 中围绕基础设施融资提案展开争论、Zcash 中的基础设施融资投票等等。
The rising popularity of formalized decentralized governance of some form is undeniable, and there are important reasons why people are interested in it. But it is also important to keep in mind the risks of such schemes, as the recent hostile takeover of Steem and subsequent mass exodus to Hive makes clear. I would further argue that these trends are unavoidable. Decentralized governance in some contexts is both necessary and dangerous, for reasons that I will get into in this post. How can we get the benefits of DeGov while minimizing the risks? I will argue for one key part of the answer: we need to move beyond coin voting as it exists in its present form.
不可否认，某种形式的正规化去中心化治理越来越受欢迎，并且人们为什么对其感兴趣也是有非常重要的原因的。但同样重要的是，要记住此类机制的风险，此前 Steem 被恶意收购然后社区成员反抗收购者而分叉出 Hive 区块链这个例子就是一个很好的教训。下面我会进一步论证，为什么这个趋势无可避免。**在某些情况下，去中心化治理是必要的，同时也拥有风险，**其原因我将在本文中介绍。我们将如何受益于 DeGov 的同时最大限度地降低其带来的风险？我将论证答案的一个关键部分：我们需要超越现有形式的代币投票。
Ever since the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace in 1996, there has been a key unresolved contradiction in what can be called cypherpunk ideology. On the one hand, cypherpunk values are all about using cryptography to minimize coercion, and maximize the efficiency and reach of the main non-coercive coordination mechanism available at the time: private property and markets. On the other hand, the economic logic of private property and markets is optimized for activities that can be "decomposed" into repeated one-to-one interactions, and the infosphere, where art, documentation, science and code are produced and consumed through irreducibly one-to-many interactions, is the exact opposite of that.