0xc1c4da/EIP0 Shared Values.csv

## EIP0 Shared Values.csv

          
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            Besides Vitalik, who are 3 or more people in the Ethereum Community that make good role models? What do you admire in them?
            What are 3 or more organizations, communities, social movements and/or ideologies that are (loosely) related to Ethereum?
            What values does/should Ethereum embody? Why?
            What originally attracted you to Ethereum? Why are you still here?
            What is your happiest memory related to Ethereum? Why?
            Is there anything in Ethereum (past/present) that frustrated you, or could have been done better?
            Is there anything in the community that exhausts or tires you?
            Is there anything we 'failed' or are 'failing' at?
            In your mind, what would make a good Ethereum community member?
            What are the values/principles you use to help guide your life?
            What kind of future do you envision?
            Are there any fears you hold that you think are relevant to Ethereum?
            What gives your life meaning? Why?
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            Name (or leave blank for anonymous)

            
              2018/05/23 10:58:27 PM GMT+7
              Rhys Lindmark -- Pushing to do good in the community through work at ETHCommons + ETHDenver + Effective Altruism.  Always positive, pro-builder, bringing the community together and completely transparent.  Griff Green - Ultimate connector, going out of his way to organize events for good of Ethereum like Open Source Block Explorer and ScalingNow! -- helps me with intro's all the time, Andy (CryptoWanderer) - building ETHPrize interview set and obsessed with developer relations and moving the ecosystem forward all from a mindset of giving back and super hard worker.
              ETHPrize, Doge-Ethereum Art Project, Community of Communities Telegram
              Transparency and Collaboration -- these result in speed and fairness.  Would like to see more on the innovation + moving faster side also.  Would be nice to have more formalized governance and a way to make things happen faster
              Community -- best people ever.  I've seen ETHPrize scale from an idea a few months ago to a community effort with more than 100 people helping along with many different organizations all on a volunteer basis.  Coolest thing ever
              Getting the bounty for the Doge-Ethereum bridge so that we could donate it to a real life art installation to be launched in Vancouver summer 2018.
              It's moving slowly and new people don't have clear line of site into priorities.  So there ends up being a lot of documentation.  Would love to see priorities and governance clearly defined for the community so people know whats important, where to find information and how to best contribute.  This is number 1 problem -- as incentivized community member = what should i be doing and how can I find this out
              Too much politics.  The unfreezing / governance discussions are tough.  Probably important, but I'm super pumped about moving the technology forward and this seems to suck the momentum and good nature of human beings out of things.  
              Governance
              Transparency - collaboration -- willingness to give 3x before asking for something.  Never willing to talk negatively about other projects
              Radical self reliance, inclusion, no judgment, no fear, listen to others, bias for action
 
              Clearly an ultra positive one

              Moving too slow -- letting governance limit experimentation.  Actually converting research to implementation.  New ecosystems are coming.  How do we lock in developers and scale now with better, faster, stronger experiences.

              Self reflection, helping others, working on hard problems, being vulnerable, failing at things, succeeding at things that are hard, personal connections, introducing people
              
              Robbie Bent

            
              2018/05/23 11:10:01 PM GMT+7
              Emin Gun Sirer, Vlad Zamfir, Stephan Tual
Emin / Vlad - honest, scientific (data / evidence-driven) approach
Stephan - not afraid to experiment, community building
              Universal Basic Income (UBI)

              Openness, non-ideological, evidence-driven, decentralised
              Solidity - being able to run code on the blockchain
              Showing a friend a dApp and seeing his mind get blown...
              Some EIPs seem endless and unable to reach conclusions (see EIP677 / 712)
              Rehashing of old arguments, infighting amongst different coin communities.
              Reasonable clarity over timelines for important network changes (e.g. PoS / sharding).
              Non-ideological (in terms of technology), happy and willing to engage in discussion with anyone!

            
              2018/05/23 11:13:40 PM GMT+7
              Vlad - just like his style. Nick Johnson - well spoken, thoughtful, and usually right. Taylor Monahan - she's real, smart, and passionate. 
              Cyber libertarianism / digital self-sovereignty advocates.  
              Openness, software for the people - by the people, a focus on doing what's right as opposed to what's easy or established, fearlessness, adaptability, sustainability.
              Crypt0 / Omar Bham. I made decent money investing, but now I try to be a pillar of the community and help integrate others into blockchain culture and Ethereum.
              Getting interviewed by Vice magazine about cryptocurrency trading, having a dialogue with Vlad after transcribing one of his Casper lectures into common english for others to read, having my security guide added to the MEW/MyCrypto knowledgebase and contributing to both of those projects.
              Constantly frustrated with new projects coming out that aren't open source, have no team information, no audit trail, etc.  ICO spam. 
              Any "purist".  Bitcoin purist, immutability purists, etc.  Core values are good, but being open to reasoning is better.
              Defining a clear Ethereum philosophy.  It may be too late to effectively do this without major controversy.  
              Somebody who is both technically knowledgeable, patient, kind, and has a lot of free time.  I know my ability to serve the community is constantly degraded simply due to lack of time and energy.
              Individuality, straightforwardness, not being scared to fail or be wrong - but excited to learn from it.
              One in which technology actually enhances the human experience, rather than distracts from it.
              I fear that blockchain technology will never reach it's potential.  It will become something that augments the established systems, but fails to bring about new paradigms.  I'm particularly worried that the societal impact of blockchain will be limited, even though it has the potential to completely change the way people interact, exchange value, and voice opinion.
              Whatever I ascribe to it at any given time. Sometimes it's just that I have to be there to feed the dog, sometimes it's because I'm making a positive difference in somebody else's life, sometimes it's just fun.
              
              AtLeastSignificant / Tomshwom

            
              2018/05/23 11:24:01 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, Micah Zoltu, Vlad Zamfir
              
              Resistance to government censorship.
              Building censorship resistant applications.  I'm not sure why I'm still here.
              Learning about it initially.  Second happiest is getting lucky on price movement.
              Yes, could have been run more like a business and less like a collective.
              Lack of strong leadership.
              Leading Ethereum.
              
              Global advancement of science and technology.
              A great one, where humans are replaced (with what is TBD).
              
              Witnessing science and technology.

            
              2018/05/23 11:30:35 PM GMT+7

            
              2018/05/23 11:46:08 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir, Nick Johnson, Martin Swende. I admire their integrity and passion for their work.
              I live in Switzerland, where the government is more decentralized than other parts of the world. That's the closest thing I can think of.
              Ethereum as a platform should remain neutral and embody only decentralization.
              World computer / smart contracts attracted me. I'm still here as I see the potential in cryptocurrencies and decentralized applications as a whole.
              
              EIP process could be better streamlined.
              Discussing EIPs, ICO spam, generally dealing with FUD.
              EVM is slow. Performance needs to be prioritized. My biggest gripe with Ethereum is the low gas limit at the moment.
              Someone who is passionate about making the world a better place through creating better alternatives to fundamental things like money, governance, etc.
              Integrity, and a drive to be generally productive.
              An overhaul in politics such that most countries end up becoming coalitions (think EU or Swiss Canton system) as opposed to two party dictatorships.
              That scammers, opportunists and criminals (e.g. EOS, Tron, IOTA) ruin the ecosystem for everyone else and cause overbearing regulation.
              
              
              Matthew Di Ferrante

            
              2018/05/23 11:48:27 PM GMT+7
              Peter Szilagyi, Daniel Nagy, Viktor Tron
              libertarian ideology
              "code is law" and blockchain immutability, because we need unstoppable dapps
              liberating the economic activity from the omnipotent government control
              devcons
              usability could be better
              hard fork discussions, because they contradict our original vision and values
              usability
              integrity
              non-aggression principle
              i hope that nation state will gradually lose its grip on society due to the rise of decentralization
              
              
              
              Vlad Gluhovsky

            
              2018/05/24 12:04:38 AM GMT+7
              Piper Merriam - the true buidler; Yoichi Hirai - with high moral standard to himself; Vlad Zamfir - the honest, valuable, and amazing troller. ;)
              
              Using incentive to make the world better.
              The liberty and the opportunities. I do want to build something cool.
              
              
              Too many shitty ICOs and scammers in this industry.
              We need better UX for devs and users.
              Willing to share, not too cocky, authentic, and honest.
              Recently - YOLO.
              Ethereum 2.0 will be very interesting.
              Hmm, missing my private key?
              I'm an absurdist today.
              Thank you for making this survey and improving the community.

            
              2018/05/24 1:03:14 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir, Emin Gun Sirer, Joe Lubin. I appreciate their combination of technical expertise & ethics.
              Anarchism, Venture Capitalism, Futurism
              Anarchism, because the network fundamentally derives its value from the sum of its participants, who are all voluntary actors in it. The network's ability to hold value is only proportional to its ability to keep its many stake holders happy.
              The ability to create computer programs that could be run verifiably.
              The DAO hack was a lot of fun. It was like living in a science fiction movie.
              Every time someone is communicated as a leader or an authority, or authoritative council, it misrepresents the actual power system of the blockchain, and undermines community faith in it. (Yes, I'm talking about the EIP0 event, too).
              The immutability fundamentalists. The impatient token investors.
              Governing around hard forks. Adequately engaging with other blockchains that purport to provide benefits.
              An ethical person who isn't afraid to learn a couple of technical things.
              Imagine a better world and try to work towards it.
              Silly beautiful.
              Ethereum becomes a little too culty around Vitalik, and whie Vitalik pushes this away, it's impossible to fully decentralize people's faith in the system.
              I give my life meaning, because I choose to, because it's more fun than not.
              
              Dan Finlay

            
              2018/05/24 1:26:37 AM GMT+7
              Gav,
Christoph Jentzsch,
Ewald Hesse
              Energy Web Foundation

            
              2018/05/24 1:31:26 AM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, Greg Colvin, Jarrad Hope. They each do work which moves Ethereum forward as a technology and as a utility, but also help organize the community in various ways. Also these devs/leaders have integrity in their conduct and do a lot to maintain and expand the spirit of the community.
              "using technology+economics and our free will -- not psychological bias or coercion -- in order to create desired outcomes" (is there a name for this? crypto-social-good?), Left-libertarianism, Anarchism
              One core value is openly and collaboratively shaping the technology which we all depend on in order to bring out the best qualities in people and societies. The underlying infrastructure of all sorts of technology and its expression in our day-to-day lives are currently shaped by market forces or governmental processes, systems which lead to monopolization and mass errors. Another core value is choice; that anyone who does not want to participate in a particular technology configuration has the ability to move to one which better suits their needs and values. Shaping technology according to our values, and having the choice to choose our configuration, has the potential to provide each of us with the ideal environment in which we can reach our fullest potential as human beings.
              I could immediately see that the proposed technology would give adopters tools with which they could build powerful social systems. I could see a lot of positive outcomes naturally emerge from the basic properties of Ethereum. As the work progressed and networks of various kinds formed, I could see that developer groups and institutions were able to produce the systems that I had anticipated (and much more). I am here to help move the work forward; it will need guidance in order to safely reach maturity.
              A great memory for me was getting to know a developer who had a very different view of the potential of Ethereum to create social change. This happened in a beautiful setting at a park, which set the tone. I found it wonderful to understand this alternative perspective and it brought me closer to this person.
              Many people in the community do not yet know how to properly communicate, or to lead a group which can examine and decide on an issue without individual or group biases. This is a pain point. Also, there is lecture culture, hero worship, and other aspects of general tech culture which may diminish our ability to properly inculcate new arrivals to the values of the community.
              The global nature of the community does cause sleep problems! 
              The community failed to establish governance and communications practices early enough. There is also no psychological support for the amount of economic value or social power that many individuals are managing.
              Someone who finds a role for themselves and executes that role to the best of their ability, within the constraints of generally accepted behavior and decency.
              I attempt to map my own interests and abilities with what I understand are the needs of others around me. Often in my mind these perceived individual needs are abstracted or aggregated, and the result is a notion of what society might need. That notion drives a lot of what I do. But I also accept that my ability to understand what is needed is highly limited and prone to bias.
              One in which the great forces of our world are constantly in a state of rebalancing. Wonderful places are created by our intentions and effort, and I see the Ethereum community and others like it creating such places in the near future. We are creating a world in which we can be safe, and be ourselves, but it may not last.
              Ethereum and blockchain technology like it can be used to create terrible places in which human beings are not respected or behavior is tightly controlled. Ethereum can be used to organize resources in order to destroy or subvert places in which human beings are respected and lead a contented life. I fear these possibilities, just as I do the abuse of other powerful technologies such as machine learning, robotics, social networks, and biological engineering. 
              Meaningfulness in life is rooted in my sense that I have a purpose, and that everyone and everything around me has a purpose and is connected. I do not know exactly where this sense comes from, but I follow its basic guidance. And this guidance points toward me helping others around me in various ways. Logically, I can also conclude that maintaining a sense of meaning leads to a better life for myself and those around me. The meaning that I find is inescapable. Just about every way I look at my role among others leads the conclusion that our life is meaningful and that there is a positive outcome from that property.
              This is a great survey and I can't wait to see the results.
              Jamie Pitts

            
              2018/05/24 2:04:04 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir (balanced), Karl Floersch (good educator) and Hudson Jameson (fair)
              Ludwig von Mises Institute, End the Fed movement and Positive Money
              Immutable ledger, but willing to change consensus rules to achieve scaling.
              Fair money that can scale for the whole world.
              When I realized that zkSNARKs could be done on Ethereum. Privacy is important.
              The DAO bailout should never have happened and it is frustrating with all the people crying for bailouts all the time.
              People crying for bailouts. 
              The DAO bailout was bad. There is a reason why the Bitcoin Genesis Block is mentioning bailouts.
              A person that is pro open discussion and anti censorship.
              Always learn.
              Fair money for the whole world.
              Not really.
              Always good to have a vision for making the world a better place.
              
              Marius Kjærstad

            
              2018/05/24 2:25:29 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - critical thinking, Joseph Lubin - incubating businesses, Karl Floersch - love and energy, Griff Green - positivism, Viktor Tron - perseverance
              ConsenSys, Web3 foundation, Status, Ethereum Community Fund
              Contribute to freedom and self-determination, Resist commodification. Ethereum as technology can contribute to reduction of freedom and increase of commodification, if used unwisely. These values need to be used to test future decisions.
              Community of true nerds - I always felt lack of them around me in my previous life. I decided I do not want to be "normal" (i.e. not nerdy), because life is too short, and being a nerd pays really well too :)
              Devcon2 in Shanghai. It felt like a visit to a parallel universe, and the one I wanted to be in
              We got too quickly to the point where we need to care about backwards-compatibility. You may remember that Frontier contracts did not supposed to survive after homestead, for example :)
              Arguments about which blockchain is better
              Not really
              I classify them into 3 types: bees (work in a team for a project), bumble bees (work alone on a project, like me), and butterflies (travel around and carry ideas between people).
              Simplify life. Live for experiences, not for goals. Everything is a balancing act.
              Chaotic and confused
              Involvement into cryptocurrencies becoming marginalised or even criminalised
              Stories, real and fiction. I thought about it for a while and decided that accomplishments do not give my life meanings, but my experiences do. And experiences of the past are just stories that I collect over time.
              
              Alexey

            
              2018/05/24 2:35:31 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamphir - mathematical rigor, Griff Green - community devotion, devotion to the vision of full decentralization, Jori Baylina - Inventivness
              IPFS (or to be more clear any content-addressable data stores). The idea of democracy (power to the people). The idea of communism (the idea that we all benefit when we all share). Yes -- the last two may seem in conflict, but I don't think they are. Democracy in that all have a voice.
              Inclusiveness. Solution to prisoner's dilemma comes when individuals relinquish selfish gains for larger gains available from community.  
              Original: Disruption of existing societal norms. Now: Disruption of existing societal norms.
              The 17 day period after the end of the DAO token sale but before the hack. Everyone involved in that moment KNEW that the world was going to change.
              The entire "Summer of the ICO" was a total shame. Almost all of the original "We will change the world" disappeared and was replaced by "I'll get mine." Totaly shit show.
              Every single project makes massive compromises related to the issue of decentralizations vs. centralization. They all say "We will decentralize later." I think it will be nearly impossible to ever "decentralize later." I want everyone to decentralize now. It will be painful, but the pain is better now than later. Plus, by imposing the pain (of no-compromise decentralization) on ourselves now, we will force the system to get better more quickly. By compromising on decentralization, we're delaying the ultimate full decentralization day.
              Totally, 100% failing to deliver decentralized solutions. Nearly everything is highly centralized. Token contracts have 'owners' with special privileges. Almost all dApps link to EtherScan. Many dApps use MetaMask/Infura.
              Someone who is purposefully giving, kind, polite. Griff Green is a near-perfect example.
              Be kind. Giving, in the end, has higher returns than taking.
              Assholes have next to nothing. Nice people have more than mean people.
              The fact that many of the dApps / systems we are developing are (in reality) high-centralized will lead to a much worse situation vis-a-vi data availability / privacy that we currently have. Centralized system that have a profoundly better mechanism to collect data (the blockchain), will be able to gather and process data about individuals millions of times better than is currently the case. It's already bad--if we're not careful, we will make things much worse.
              Meaning comes from releasing oneself into one's own fascination. If one is fascinated with one's own moment-by-moment work, the meaning emerges unbidden.
              Very much interested in seeing the results.

            
              2018/05/24 3:20:05 AM GMT+7
              Viktor Tron - ideas and the way of thinking, Lewis Marshall - excellent technical and engineering skills.
              Some of ethereum liberal ideas are shared with anarchist ideology, some of ideas that I share, too, but not all.
              Freedom in scope of information technology.
              Idea of creating a platform for the next iteration in information technology evolution.
              Working with swam team members together in the same place, not just remotely.
              Complexity of the whole system for the end user. 
              Nothing particular.
              Nothing particular.
              Different from all of other members as much as possible. Cultural diversity and thinking differently are crucial for any development.
              Kindness, trust, creativity, correctness, simplicity, quality over quantity... Do not do anything that you would not like to be done to you.
              I am afraid that the future is not so bright, and that everybody should do the best at the field of activity to promote the values they believe, whatever they are. I see that more social freedoms will be traded for material gain or basic instincts, and that information technology can be the tool to prevent it.
              Technical quality and pace of development.
              To provide stability to the people that are very close to me, by being creative, and hoping that the work will help people that I do not know, also.
              
              Janos Guljas

            
              2018/05/24 3:46:09 AM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson - Solid technical foundation, general willingness to engage with the community, seems able to genuinely try to understand dissenting opinions and ideas.
Dan Finlay - Solid technical foundation, part of a for-profit-entity but has remained dedicated to producing a public good without compromise, history of working towards establishing and following standards
Hudson Jameson - Kind, Genuine, While not deeply technical he works hard to have sufficient technical knowledge to be able to serve the community, actively engages the community in a kind and fair way, does a job that needs to be done but which many of "us" don't want to do (community support), strong history of trying to provide the community with accurate and impartial information.
              Burning Man - Has central entity which orchestrates but doesn't "control", relies on broad community buy in and collaboration for the "thing" to be successful, outsider view often sees it as indulgent/wasteful/confusing.
IPFS - Heavy focus on distributed tech, focus on tech over hype
Keybase.io - Limited centralization, tool allows independent verification of most things, privacy focused, focus on making cryptography usable.
              - Embracing change via forks to improve the protocol (so we don't stagnate)
- Reject absolutism, embrace diversity of ideas (so we don't have our own version of the block size debate)
- Reject tribalism, embrace collaboration (so we don't fall into an us vs. them mindset)
- Incentive alignment and financial transparency and disclosure (so we can have an honest and open discourse)
- Vision focused on a radical future, but realistic mission focused on what we can realistically do "now" (so we actually produce results and deliver a platform that people can use now)
              Fascination with the decentralized type of anarchy that blockchain offered.
              Finding myself in a position with a voice working on something that "matters".
              The initial pre-mine distribution should have had a vesting period to help align incentives.
Gavin Wood seems to have a history of placing his own self interest above that of the community or ecosystem but that is largely perception that may or may not be accurately rooted in reality.
              Engaging with people on reddit or really any forum under which the real identity of the person is masked is difficult because it is near impossible to tell if someone is just trying to create controversy or whether they are truly engaging.
So much spin and mis-information on reddit that I could spend all day trying to correct people and probably not make a dent (so why try?)
              I think the Foundation **should** have put a mining subsidy in place on day 0 to ensure the Foundation was funded indefinitely.  Foundation has a large war chest but it won't last forever.
              Care and focus on technology, practical/pragmatic approach, strong desire for honesty technical discourse, integrity.
              Integrity, Kindness, Compassion, Don't take self too seriously, Never stop building
              Post scarcity - Everyone gets what they need and can choose to spend their time doing what they are passionate about.
              Is this really going to change anything?  Are we creating the perfect off-shore tax haven?
              Building and creating, being useful, having a purpose, being good at the things I do, freedom to live my life how I choose.
Why?.... good question.
              
              Piper Merriam

            
              2018/05/24 6:39:51 AM GMT+7
              Dmitry Buterin (positive competent person), Gavin Wood (few words, great work with parity) , Alex Van de Sande (great proposals, deep understanding)
              Libertarianism 
              voluntary association of creators, self-governance, self-responsibility, non-violence
              Ethereum has power to fix the world
              
              1) Most important: Trade-off between personal freedom and management is not solved yet. Some important core projects are badly managed. 
2) frustrating: deluting community by loud neophytes with more sense for money than for core ethereum values. 
3) frustrating: resignation of Yoichi Hirai.
              too much noise in community -- we need better filtering (personally adjustable).
              community is failed to help people who lost money. self-governance is failed till now.  
              goodness, competence
              don't harm intentionally, be good, understand in details, help others.
              commonwelth of self-governed creative communities, where more competent people (in any aspect) have more visibility.
              1) big, unstructured, loud, incompetent discussion in community.
2) unsufficient ETH capitalization comparing to cap of all tokens may make atacks on PoS economically reasonable. 
3) ETH is split/hardfork prone because development is considered more important than stability. Good governance can prevent it, but it is not implemented yet.
              be free, gain more understanding, start new projects. 
              thanks for your work, guys. Please let me know the results
              @Ethernian

            
              2018/05/24 6:55:56 AM GMT+7
              Yoichi Hirai
Alexey Akhunov
Hudson Jameson
Nick Johnson
              Bitcoin, EFF, Tor
              Ethics outside of the Law
              The blockchain revolution
              The DAO hack and hard fork - it was hope that when things are bad enough the Ethereum community will take responsibility for the platform
              Always lots. Mostly people's unwillingness to take responsibility, or to have patience
              Always lots. People are exhausting.
              We are failing at showing empathy/sympathy to victims of the (mal) execution of smart contracts
              Willing to participate in blockchain governance, even at own personal legal risk, even when it involves participating in politics
              I just try to do the right thing on a case by case basis
              Ideally one where the human race exists 
              Lots. Mostly that Ethereum/the whole blockchain revolution will be captured by corporations/the law.
              My willingness to not skeptically question the meaning I find in life. Because the search for meaning is self-defeating.
              Next time, have more context and humility in the foreword, please.
>If you are reading this, your voice matters to the future guidance of Ethereum. 
What is the point of this rhetoric? To make me feel special? I'm not special.
>The intent behind this survey is to create an open data-set of individual perspectives to help inform the Shared Values of Ethereum.
Don't use the passive voice to obscure who is doing the asking. Whose intent? What authority do you claim to have, to coordinate "future guidance"? Why is "Shared Values of Ethereum" capitalized? 
The foreword def could use work
              Vlad

            
              2018/05/24 8:40:58 AM GMT+7
              First of all I think a good role model is not so much someone who has achieved a lot materially, but who has a well-guided moral compass. It's nice that Karl Floersch meditates, and he seems like a nice guy, although I don't know him that well. Lane Rettig tweeted something that showed empathy, which was nice. I remember Vlad Zamfir talking about how his approach was more faith-based, long-term and led from the heart, which was nice. Also Vinay Gupta seems to be spiritually minded (e.g. ending his posts in God speed!). I should note that I think that it is ignorance to not seek God, seeking God is the purpose of life.
              There are many examples (too many to list) of organizations, e.g. all the dapps and alternative cryptocurrencies that have taken some inspiration from Ethereum (or vice versa). Online communities such as Reddit, Twitter, Medium, Peepeth, Akasha, Meetup and Telegram see a lot of interaction to do with Ethereum. Social movements and ideologies that are most similar include privacy, radical markets and similar movements/ideologies interested in more decentralized governance.
              There is this, which seems reasonable: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper#philosophy, although the only one of these points that is really an ethical value is non-discrimination. I think the aims and ideals of SRF are exemplary: http://www.yogananda-srf.org/Aims_and_Ideals.aspx, and some of them are general enough for any organization, e.g. "To serve mankind as one’s larger Self."
              I saw and still see that there is a lot of potential with Ethereum to be useful, since it can be used for virtually any governance or economic activity, at lower transactions costs than traditional media of exchange. (I'm still here because there is still lots of potential.) When I had a job in the renewable industry, I worked full-time for a short while, but initially I worked part time and I went back to working part time because I wanted to spend more time studying and contributing with Ethereum. Ultimately I left that job because I felt like my creativity was stimied there, it was slowing down progress, and it's preferable to be more focused.
              Nothing particularly outstanding, but building and pushing out releases brings some satisfaction, and solving difficult problems is rewarding.
              I have had to sacrifice income, studying and working unpaid (so far), hopefully in order to be more useful.
               Scammers and phishers. There seems to be some degree of sheep-like blind following, cultishness and bubblishness (to the moon!, general excitement when it is better to be calm, etc.) and lack of due diligence.
              Well there have been stuck and lost funds; volatility; ASICs; scalability; https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-introduction#issues.
              If they hodl, they have done due diligence and only invest what they can afford to lose. It's a plus if they build, but it's understandable that people have ties that may prevent that (e.g. family, mortgage, etc.) And if they build, they are not in it for the money, but to selflessly serve.
              Generally, following the teachings of Self-Realization Fellowship, e.g. regular and deep, twice or more daily meditation and love for God.
              I actually agree with Paramahansa Yogananda's prediction that one day there will be no money. Money has not always existed, and we will not always continue to need it. When we get to a higher level of enlightenment/Self-Realization in civilization, people will be less needy and greedy. I should note that it is better to be practical. '“Forget the past,” Sri Yukteswar would console him. “The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.”'
              Generally, it is better to avoid being fearful. But of course it is sensible to be cautious and reasonable. I think we need to avoid greed, maliciousness and other evils, and they only way to do that is by ousting it with something mutually exclusive, which can only be love, meditation and following spiritual principles.
              As I've touched on, seeking God is the purpose of life. To the meditating devotee and spiritual aspirant, God is gradually and increasingly realized as ever-existing, ever-new, ever-conscious bliss, known in Sanskrit as Satchitananda. That is what everyone is seeking, consciously or subconsciously, rightly or wrongly. The yogi in nirbikalpa samadhi has merged zer individual consciousness with that consciousness, ze is one with it at all times.
              
              James Ray

            
              2018/05/24 1:39:18 PM GMT+7
              Joseph Poon - intellectual honesty, diverse thinking, commitment to new organizational values not only technology innovation; Karl Floersch - commitment to education, intellectual honesty, a walking rainbow
              1) Decentralized Power & Decision Making (no need for centralized authorities to be the ultimate decision makers, as they often operate in self-interest or not fully reflective of general will); 2) Mitigating our own "moloch" or self-interest by creating systems that make us check ourselves - eliminating arbitrage opportunities; 3) Every single person should have access to every single thing they want as long as it's not harmful to society - e.g., financial access, choice of job etc.
              We're all in this together (this being life) - we shouldn't limit the contributions that each individual can provide to either decision making, access, economy-building, discussions etc.
              Because I used to consult for the top financial institutions in the US/Canada - banks, insurance companies, credit networks and I realizied that they'll never change their ways or ideologies to include and benefit all members of society. I also studied economics and grew up in a house of developers so it became clear to me very quickly that Ethereum opens up entirely new economic opportunities globally - breaking down some of the barriers in politics, economic development and equality.
              Badger badger Mushroom dance at EDCON - because Ethereum is a rainbow of very bizarre, intellectual and interesting people that just want to build a world of acceptance & have fun.
              
              Pure shillers/investors.
              Haven't failed - but are struggling to communicate that this isn't a technological movement, it's an ideological movement towards decentralization of power, decision-making and capability.
              Aligned ethos, not only in it to make money.
              Intellectual honesty, kindness, following the "river". Accepting  the things I cannot change, having the courage/ability to change what I can and having the wisdom to know the difference. 
              Ability to trust individuals and not having to rely on incumbent institutions to gain access to basic life needs.
              That nothing will change, institutional investors and banks will buy into the movement, use the technology and their incumbent power will continue.
              Learning.
              
              Eva Beylin

            
              2018/05/24 2:50:32 PM GMT+7
              Joe Lubin: business acumen, forsight; Stephan Tual: evangelism, PR; status.im: broad support and collaboration over competition
              IPFS, Tendermint, FOSS, web3/p2p community
              business neutrality, social inclusivity,
              decentralisation/cut the middle man, potential to lower barrier of entry to businesses, economic sustainability to peer-to-peer tech
              swarm summit 2018
              organisational issues at the foundation. 
              
              clarity on POS/sharding readiness and timeline
              contribution
              non-aggression principle, compassion, generosity
              decentralised and prosperous
              some dev teams show inability to grow and hire; inability to deliver a well thought through POS/sharding before scalability hits big time
              change the world a better place one line of code at a time
              
              viktor tron

            
              2018/05/24 3:12:40 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, Vlad Zamfir, Edmund Edgar, Makoto Inoue
              
              Honesty, Tolerance, Equality
              The idea of decentralization and the cool idea of "unstoppable" apps
              Launching Etherplay
              web3 api is evolving slowly, discussion about gasPrice took time to take place
              ICO and money talks

            
              2018/05/24 4:26:33 PM GMT+7
              Piper Merriam: He is thoughful, ethical and considerate about other people, but not afraid to voice his opinion even if it can be controversial. He also has a wide range and is involved both in the low-level tech and the higher level meta-discussions. 
Nick Johnson: mainly the same reasons as Piper. Also very wide range, from evm to ENS to EIP discussions. He is also a very talented engineer. 
Taylor Monahan: Despite the mycrypto/mew controversy, I like it that Taylor has always worked very hard to protect users, spending a lot of time on education and tirelessly working to solve problems and help the ethereum ecosystem forward.    
              Reddit - being the main forum for ethereum users. 
The decentralization movement -- ranging from tech like ipfs, sia, zcash, openstreetmap to airbnb and uber. 
 
              1. Technology exists to serve humans, not the other way around. We should not be slaves to technology, but use it to help human kind (in general  and individually). Ethereum should not be a technocracy ruled by technical elites. 
 
              Originally it was the vision of autonomous contract coupled with the technical challenges. Reading the initial blog posts by Vitalik sparked my interest, but the actual low-level programming of the EVM got me hooked. 
I'm still here because of
* The vision of automous contracts able to interact with real-world processes and people still exist
* The people: I work every day with people smarter than me, who are open, supportive and caring. 
* The challenges: there's an immense amount of things still to build, and the range of things to dive into is astounding. 

              Not a specific memory per se, but getting accepted into the Ethereum dev community, and later becoming one of the core-developers for geth ranks highly. I think they're totally awesome, and I started out auditing the EVM and learning Go in the process a couple of years ago, so would have never thought to reach that point. 
Other than that, I've had a lot of Eureka-moments when finding bugs and flaws. 

              The competition between Cpp/Geth, and later Parity/Geth is frustrating. To compete on the infrastructure-layer (protocols, test-networks etc) hampers the development process. We should not compete against eachother -- it's way too early. We have the entire world to take over. Why fight over a pond when there's an entire ocean to discover... 
There are a lot of technical things that could've been done better, but I won't list all those. 
The process for advancing Ethereum is frustrating, since it moves so slowly forward. I would personally like more to have a stronger leadership which could set the path and make a roadmap. 
              That people don't realize the technical challenges of just 'standing still'. They complain about geth becoming bad, when in fact the state of Ethereum today is _massive_, and growing at an unsustainable rate. And on top of that they want even higher gaslimits. 
The discussions about ether-recovery, and the old DAO-debate tires me. It's a trench-war, and I don't see any solutions that will work well for everyone. 

              1. User experiece. We still do not provide a good SECURE UX for interacting with Ethereum (I'm working on that though). 

              Someone who, like Vitalik, Piper and Nick, are not afraid to listen to an opposing view, and are open to the possibility that they are actually wrong. And then change their opinion. Or, if not, continue the discussion in a civilized manner.
Someone who not only sees one facet of a problem, but thinks about all aspects of the Ethereum ecosystem and contributes to several areas. 
              Tough question....
* Don't do anything I wouldn't want to take responsibility for if it became public. 
* Real lives are the most important. If a bug can lead to someone committing suicide due to losing all his money, that's more critical than a bug (e.g. a consensus issue) that would annoy the entire ecosystem.
* Everyone is a noob in most areas, so don't be afraid to speak up, reach out or ask stupid questions. 
* Treat people with respect. 
              Dystopian version: the technology changes, but old power-structures remain, just with new faces. Plus environmental disaster.
 
Utopian version: the technology changes, and many old power-structures crumble. People gain back power over their resources, their privacy. People eat synthesized meat and/or insects, clean up the oceans and creates unicorns.  
              That Ethereum just becomes the next thing, but eventually also succumbs to being 'tamed' into a walled garden, just like the Internet in the hands of ISPS and governments. 
              My kids, wife, work. I believe my brain is happiest as long as it's learning new things and constantly gets challenged. 
              
              Martin Holst Swende

            
              2018/05/24 5:08:33 PM GMT+7
              Gavin Wood - for taking the Ethereum to the enterprise level with his foresight and work around the parity Ethereum client.
Alex van de Sande - for ideas around real world use cases and all the work he did around making Ethereum accessible
Christian Reitwiessner - For building and advancing the core language of the EVM and all the work around making smart contracts pay to write.

              
              Ethereum should embody the values of openness, and technological progress and transparency. Blockchain tech enables for the first time to automate trust relationships in a completely new way without human trust parties involved. This is a major shift in power from monolithic controlling institutions to direct access to economical interaction without borders or restriction.
              Ethereum was the first blockchain that makes non-monetary use cases possible, and spurred an innovation around new decentralised systems. I am fascinated by the community and the things being build, and the strong collaboration between all participants. It also created the largest developer community around blockchain out there and a mass of open source tools to benefit and accelerate everybody's ideas.
              Launching the network and the way how it launched was a very fun moment, as it was very dynamically (self generation of the genesis block, miners jumped in, etc.). It all started with a nerdy group of people and took the world in a breeze.
              The organisation structure about tools, projects could be improved. Im personally a bit frustrated by the attraction of ICO projects that have little to nothing todo with decentralised projects. While also the expectations for token evaluations is not in alignment with reality, as they don't compare to decentralised, or blockchain projects. Moving those projects to proper equity based token models would be a huge help here.
              The focus on money and the price can be tiring at times. Also the mix of less knowledgeable parties and projects with no basic understand of the technology is annoying.
              We need to better self regulate ICOs, and create incentive structures to
1. make ICOs more responsible for founders/investors (i.e. refundable ICO)
2. make token evaluations more clear, as they all seem to be mixed up right now
We also need to improve a lot on tooling, and best practices, as well as documentation. Here we are lacking the most behind, as everything happened so fast over the last years!
              A person who understands and focuses on building a decentralised future that enables better and more fluid interactions between everybody. Putting the control and power into the hands of each individual, rather than creating new monolithic power houses.
              Transparency, openness, sharing and helping 
              A future in which freedom of the individual is a given, and where choosing the right choices for one self is not restricted by status, property, or economical societal restrictions.
Ethereum allows to iterate faster over incentive systems with real stakes in it. This allow us to test and improve economical constructs in an unforeseen fast pace, where in the past years of creating and establishing laws was required.
This is the core benefit ethereum brings, and will accelerate human interaction on a society and economical bases exponentially.
              Ethereum can be used for good and bad. It can become skynet, or the Orwellian dream machine, or the enabler of individual freedom. Both are possible and will happen. The question is to which extend each side?
              Building my dreams and creating a more liveable place for everybody.
              
              Fabian Vogelsteller

            
              2018/05/24 7:01:23 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - Care for Ethics - Critical thinking 
Karl Floersch  - Positive Energy
Christian Reitwiessner - Modest and Skillful
              Zeitgeist Movement
Chaos Computer Club
Satoshi Labs
              Decentralisation
Sustainability
Fairness
Equal Rights
Justice
Positive progress to create a world where humans and mother earth are living in symbiosis for a long time. 
              Very interesting/inspiring technology and crazy (in a positive way) people. I think we can build a Resource-Based-Economy (RBE) on top. Could be a great substrate for a lot of progress. Has the potential to destroy banks and other centralized and powerful entities. I am still here because I think all these things are still possible.
              Creating the RLP encoder in Kotlin/Kethereum - sounds silly but I like this piece of code ;-)
              
              Influx of Greedy people and Gamblers.
              Scaling so far unfortunately.
              Care for ethics and a try to foresight the impact of their creation. Be inclusive and share knowledge.
              Try to not harm people and mother Earth. Try to stay open. Try to create nice and useful things. Try to share creation and knowledge. Try to stay positive. Try to stay alive.
              Happy symbiosis between mother Earth and all humans. Exploring the cosmos and trying to gain more knowledge and get wiser.
              Yes - a lot unfortunately. Extreme capitalism growing on this substrate, Power just shifting to other entities - but still concentrated, A.I.'s using this substrate to harm humans, Inability to stop something that went wrong ..
              Creation - because I think it is maybe the only thing that has the chance to last.
              Enjoy life - Don't be evil - Try to do the right things - Be positive!
              ligi

            
              2018/05/24 7:12:20 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Z - standing up for his ideals even if they may be unpopular to the community. Eg writings on the DAO, on governance.
Rhys L - working like crazy for little pay to help grow a blockchain for good community. Strong values. Great listener.
Joe L - showing and strategizing how to bridge the utopian vision of Ethereum with the world of today. Amazing execution. 
And there are more! :)
              Blockchain for good movement
Wikimedia 
Share-alike eg GPL, creative commons, C4 
              Ambitious positive vision for the future 
Execution, buidl 
What's in "Mike's crypto manifesto"
              Because of the values
              Many great memories 
              Would be nice : Less opaque and more inclusive governance, larger scale deployment of foundation funds to developer ecosystem, better network scaling. These are all getting addressed, great!
              Ethereum maximalists. The growing assumption that it's Ethereum or nothing.
              See "frustrations" section 
              It's not up to me, or anyone. The point is for the community to be inclusive.
              Ambitious positive vision for the future
Execution, buidl
Always be learning. 
Share.
              A positive one! If we don't screw it up. Jury's out.
              Some more centralized entity with a huge network takes away Ethereum momentum. Eg telegram or Amazon 
              Making the world a better place. Knowing that blockchain / Ethereum is a great lever to help do so.
              
              Trent McConaghy

            
              2018/05/24 7:19:41 PM GMT+7
              Griff Green: philanthropic attitude, humanness, pursuit for the good
Alex van de Sande: focus on technical implementation, modest, ready to help
Ming Chan: passion and self-sacrifice for Ethereum

              Cypherpunk movement, DASH, Bitcoin (?), EEA (?)
              Decentral; serve the human being and society; freedom, especially freedom of speech; protection of human rights; general virtues; respect; technological progress. In order to progress human mankind.
              The fascination of programmable assets; the surprise that something completely new and disruptive was born that can change a lot of things to the better and enables to see the world with different eyes. I am still here because I strongly believe that Ethereum is the perfect medium to improve the world and I want to contribute to the improvements.
              There are so many happy memories relating to Ethereum that it is hard to choose. Maybe the unicorn day: the day ETH went above the USD 1bn market cap the first time. I was on the phone with Ming and Vitalik was cheering in the background, and we had proof that Ethereum was not just a fantasy, but a strong belief shared by an increasing amount of people. There are many other moments that made and make me happy, basically every time I meet valuable people working at the heart of Ethereum related projects.
              Not at all. It's an evolution. Current mistakes are the best lessons for the future.
              The community is pure. Every viewpoint is valuable.
              The challenges are scalability, stability, and governance. We are progressing on all fronts.
              A good Ethereum community member shares the passion, listens respectfully, speaks up in his areas of expertise, seeks to contribute, behaves modestly, and puts others first.
              I am here to help others. I want to give more than I receive in all aspects.
              A future where we can translate the virtues of human mankind into technology in order to amplify the best of us.
              The greed for power, in all aspects.
              The people I interact with. They are all that matters.
              EIP0 and this survey are a great idea!
              Yessin

            
              2018/05/24 7:55:27 PM GMT+7
              Andy Tudhope - a real ambassador for his project, down to earth and approachable, knowledgeable
Jon Choi - flies under the radar, super smart, modest and stays out of the limelight, working hard on the big problems in the ecosystem
Griff Green - working hard to promote radical transparency everywhere, community organizer, leads an amazing team building a product that will make the ecosystem stronger and make the world a better place
              UBI - Universal basic income - several communities around the world e.g. meetups in Berlin discussing this idea and beginning to put it into practice (via e.g. Circles UBI)
Radical markets - see Vitalik's recent blog posts and the recent book by the same name
Social justice - not any specific group, just this topic in general - lots of relevance to Ethereum
              Inclusivity - we are building the future and it should include as many people as possible, ideally all humans everywhere
Equality of opportunity - same idea
Open mindedness - in the sense that we are willing to dispense with existing systems that modern society is bound to "just because" and consider radical alternatives (cf. Radical Markets idea)
Technocracy/technical excellence - because Ethereum won't amount to much if it doesn't work well in the first place
Innovation - we are willing to take technical risks that other communities e.g. Bitcoin are not
Authenticity - winning the hearts and minds of the community - this is what sets us apart
              Ethereum is the set of tools and the community that's best-positioned _today_ to make the world a better place. The wealth gap and certain other disparities increasingly frustrate me but it's still the best hope we've got, and it's early enough that contributions today will have an outsized impact in the future.
              Coding heads-down in an airbnb in some random city in some random country surrounded by other smart, hard-working, well-intentioned hackers working to build the future. This is the most exciting thing on the planet today.
              My experience at the Ethereum Foundation was pretty terrible. That organization needs a lot of help.
              People shilling ICOs. Non-technical folks who haven't created any value constantly grabbing the limelight and spouting things that aren't inline with the ethos of the buidlers. There are too many conferences and events and most aren't very high quality.
              Our branding and messaging - not one specific project but the community and platform at large - have completely failed to garner the attention or respect of the masses to-date. People at large associate Ethereum with "scam." This is a massive hurdle and will require coordinated effort to overcome.
              Someone who represents the values described above. Someone who is excited about and passionate about technology but who at the same time has a sense of humanity, loves people, and wants to make the world a better place. Someone who feels the burden of the responsibility we have today to work for a better future.
              More or less the same ones described above. Excellence, modesty, humility, humor, respect, focus, love, authenticity, open-mindedness, empathy.
              We are at a turning point and I can see two futures, one bright and one dark. In the bright one, we use tools like Ethereum to build a much better future for humanity - we escape the oppressive nation-state system, defeat nationalism and nativism, and usher in a new age of globalization that's fairer and affords better opportunities to everyday people everywhere. The dark one is really dark and involves recentralization where large companies capture the power of Ethereum and related tools for themselves and their shareholders.
              The fear that the current wealth distribution is unfair and unsustainable and will lead to unrest
              Doing good, hard work for the right reasons, building a better world. Spending time around people who are doing the same. What else is there? I take pride in the good work that I and the people around me do and I feel that we have a real chance to change the future.
              Awesome initiative. Let's take #EIP0 to the next level! 💪
              Lane Rettig

            
              2018/05/24 8:07:38 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, Vlad Zamfir, Taylor Monahan
              
              Open, Easy to use, Transparent decisions, Pushing the boundary 
              The Stephan Tual Ethereum world machine video. He did a really good job selling it.
              Mining and seeing it work, buying an ens domain though my local node.
              The whole ETC stuff, scaling is a big problem and it normally takes a while but still frustrating. I miss the usual blog posts from the ETH devs that were quite common a few years ago.
              the general hate from some of the more toxic parts of the community, sometimes there seems to be a witch hunt attitude.
              
              Welcoming people, we all grow together (helping each other / sharing knowledge), focus on community events, a we all win together mentality.
              Help everyone grow together, don't be a dick, try to be a positive example in debates.
              Less centralized and more .... walkaway style. Just choose who you want to work with and what you want to work on and find a group of people that shares your vision and do it opensource. 
              
              Knowing i'm having a positive impact 
              
              zerocool

            
              2018/05/24 8:07:48 PM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson - because he is always responsive, transparent and handles the Dev meetings very well
Griff Green - because he cares about the community and the technology and is looking for solutions today. His open and transparent approach and involving the community is outstanding
Jordi Baylina - because as part of the WhiteHatGroup he is taking on the responsibility to keep ethereum safe and by showing his participation in the WHG he makes himself a role model.
              Swarmwise from Rick Falkvinge opened my eyes on the power of open source
Voluntarism is the motivation for a lot of people in this community
Projects that live the spirit of Ethereum to me are Giveth, Aragon, Status and Swarm City (but I am biased with the later)
              Be transparent - have open discussions on any topic and involve every community member because diversity of oppinions leads to be a better solution at the end
Be inclusive - same as above actually, simply dont judge oppinions based on the person sending it
Dont be personal - all discussions should stay objective and on topic. Arguments should only focus on the issue itself and not become personal. This also means that critic should not be taken personal. Even though we are in it with all our heart and it sometimes feels like we are attacked, just remember its not about me, there is a bigger goal to gain than my own ambition.
              UX attracted me, because it was not there. I participated in the Augur Token Sale and it gave me sleepless nights. I realized that this new world is created by Devs that love the technology, but if no one cares about UX, none of these products will be used.
I am still here because 90% of the projects still have crappy UX.
In addition I think that most products aim for the wrong target group. ICOs are only attractive for Investors and the products that are actually useable today are promoted to developed countries. But thats not where this technology is needed. No developed country needs a decentralized service. Go to countries where decentralization is a benefit, not an obstacle.
              Devcon2 in Shanghai was a great experience. It was where I connected to many people in the Ethereum Ecosystem. It was like finding a family that you never new existed.
              I think the Foundation should spend more effort on educating about Blockchain. 
              No, the community is great. What is very tiring is the ICO Frenzy and that everyone thinks that Blockchain is the solution for everything.
              I think Forking to make up for mistakes that projects have created themselves has to stop. Its like with kids if you know that Mom and Dad will bail you out, you will act unresponsible. Learning through negative consequence is what I prefer. 
              Anyone that creates value for the community. No matter what the motivation is, if the outcome is positive for the majority of the community he should belong to it.
              My Motto is "Get it done!" - Nobody wants to hear excuses and it does not help to blame others, all that matters is the outcome of what you do. I respect people that appologize for their mistakes instead of blaming others or the circumstances for it. 
              A future that gives people the choice to be more self sovereign (not everyone will want it though). This hopefully leads to a distribution of wealth and by that taking away the focus on financial value and instead focus more on individual values.
              No, I dont fear anything with Ethereum. In my oppinion Ethereum is one way of coming to the future as described above, but it might not be the only way, or even can get replaced. This will only happen if another solution works better for the same outcome. Therefore it will be OK for Ethereum to be replaced.
              I like to solve problems. It really motivates me when I can help someone find a solution to his problem. 
Blockchain has many problems right now, so I am perfectly placed :o)
              What I like most about the community is that it does not feel like there are competitors, even though there are projects that work on the same topic. It seems we all feel we are working for a greater vision than simply the solution we want to build. As longs a someone is building it, it is good for us. 
              Bernd Lapp

            
              2018/05/24 8:25:02 PM GMT+7
              Vlad zamfir, Griff green and Taylor Monahan. They have strong ideological values. 
              Voluntarism, cypherpunk, anarchy
              Cypherpunk, because those ideas are at the core of the technology. 
              Changing the world with it 
              Meeting vlad in Barcelona. Because he’s a magician and very funny dude 
              Yes, I don’t like the ethereum alliance. We should not be trying to emulate the old world in this new tech. 
              Consensys. 
              No
              Someone who can translate the tech to regular folks
              Cypherpunk
              Decentralised utopia
              Scaling 
              Building swarm city. Because I want to bring ethereum to the masses through a simple consumer facing dapp with a nice trusted brand. 
              
              Kingflurkel

            
              2018/05/24 8:55:48 PM GMT+7
              Jutta Steiner: she has demonstrated great ability to remain calm and make good decisions for the community under great pressure and stress.
Peter Szilágyi: having been lead of geth development for years, he has been effectively one of the most important decision makers, yet has been low profile and ego free for years and is probably not as well known
Griff Green: he has been fundamental in helping a lot of people during troubled times, was trusted with large amounts of money and has proven to be extremely honest and friendly
              rationalistic engineers that believe the scientific method, idealistic hippies that want to change the world and end human suffering, radical capitalists that believe markets are efficient tools for both
              rational, scientific approach to technology that has positive impact in a large number of people, that is both individualistic because it believes in people's abilities to make good choices for themselves, and collectivistic, because it believes every human is deserving of worth and accessing stable trustworthy tools for self improvement
              I came here because Bitcoin was ignoring the radical possibilities of smart contracts. I am still here because the world still needs decentralization and ethereum still seems the best bet for it.
              At Devcons and other meetings, I've had a great time spending many hours talking and mingling with the most intelligent people I've ever met.
              
              The 'Lambo' people, those who are ostentatious of wealth or are in just to make quick money
              The establishment of the financial system has been catching up to us faster than we are catching up to the mainstream public
              people who want to help build apps that help the world
              I always try to understand the feelings and positions of people on the other side of the debate
              One where anyone, from any background, has access to an internet-connected device that gives them access to the same financial instruments, legal recourses, security of assets, etc than a rich swiss citizen
              The world might not care about decentralization. Maybe they would be happy trusting apple all their money and private data.
              I have a dream job and a family full of love. I hope to use that luck I had to leave a positive impact in the lives of those who were not as fortunate as me
              
              Alex Van de Sande

            
              2018/05/24 9:00:07 PM GMT+7
              I am biased towards the enterprise end of the spectrum: Conor Svenson has done great work at the EEA; Ben Eddington is leading R&D at our organisation (ConsenSys) and is working hard on sharding etc; Joe Lubin is well Joe.  There are many individuals within the EF and other firms who I don't know well but all pushing hard.
              Other decentralised protocols (IPFS, Golem, iExec, etc); open source more broadly; self-sovereignty
              Building decentralised infrastructure to enable new classes of applications and reducing friction/intermediation to provide fairer, more trusted systems
              Vision, and, developers, developers, developers...I worked a lot on the Java platform and similarities as a programming paradigm for a new architecture, VM based, etc
              Everyday is a new challenge :)
              The relationship between the EEA and EF has improved a lot recently
              The rocket ship
              Understanding that our community is not a homogenous population.  At ConsenSys, I frequently say "to change the world, we need to change all of it".  As Ethereum and decentralisation goes "mainstream", we need broader communication tools and governance mechanisms.  I hope the EEA can work with the EF, to help facilitate conversations with commercial entities working on Ethereum generally (not just private changes)
              Any individual focused on constructive contribution and collaboration, who believes in the movement.  This obviously includes devs, devs, devs -- and also includes people who help build and manage communities, doc writers, thinkers, speakers, etc.  What matters to me most is behaviour: collaboration, respect, positive contribution, etc.
              Try to facilitate the most constructive outcome for all involved.
              A more frictionaless and decentralised world, with abundance for all
              The complexity of the current governance
              Pretty much everything!
              
              Jeremy Millar

            
              2018/05/24 9:03:58 PM GMT+7
              Alex Van de Sande: Nice and focused. Emin Gun Sier: Academical and truth-seeking. Gavin Wood: Hardcore and insist.
              Github/Ubuntu
              Community driven development, it makes community as valuable as a single company
              Open source culture and fighting darkness as a community /  I felt responsible to protect the community we build together
              Shanghai Attack, see core devs fighting the hackers in the hotel lobby. Made me first time feel like in a cyber war, very cyber-punk feeling
              EF's less responsible and disorganization, as well as Vitalik was kinda controlled by individuals, no longer down with the real developer community
              Politics between projects
              Connect global community together and build together
              Open minded and less disturbed by crypto market
              Focus
              Decentralized apps replacing platforms
              Over confidence and lose of developlers
              Make a difference in the world. Cuz its fun
              
              Xin Xu

            
              2018/05/24 9:33:21 PM GMT+7
              Hudson James, Karl Floresch, Joesph Poon, - all super nice and thoughtful
Vinay Gupta - Sophisticated and can speak to Govts
Nick Dodson - Governance thought leader and brilliant JavaScript coder
Richard Ma - Quantstamp, incredibly thoughtful and sincere
              Occupy Wall St, Burning Man, punk Rock
              Cooperation, Merit, Transparency
              I work in NYC, banks nearly blew up the world, I was at Occupy Wall St.  Here because greedy rent seekers extracting value, brittle inefficient infrastructure, and ideal fairness in a globalized economy.
              Vinay’s ending talk at DevCon1. Because it was a distributed community that acknowledged itself for the first time and with a thought leader validating that we are actually doing this now.
              Not providing a much needed tool because it was “out of scope”. A human friendly database query layer that is open source for not having to go things like linked list traversal
              Every Ethereum event something goes wrong. AV, A/C, tickets, venue, something
              Node developers taking UX requests to heart. There is more than just tech, if it’s hard to use it’s hard to use.
Ethereum Package Manager!!!!
All ERC’s should be posted up in a registry like NPM.
              Thoughtful, not brash, strong critical thinking path for parsing many concerns. 
              Integrity! Being straight up about your wants / needs, what your observations are and how you interpret them, and explaining why. Someone who makes empty promises really irks me.
              Anyone can vote from their phone in a direct democracy through Toshi/Status etc. Get a loan without a bank. Use my Decentralized credentials across apps (like Facebook without Facebook)
              Inability to blacklist scary DAOs or censor awful things like child porn that could be pushed to the chain.
              I’m using that talent to help fix how broken the world has become. Meritocracy with assures fairness built in via computers. Nepotism / Secret deals / etc need to be a thing of the past.
              I am worried that certain actors have too much ETH already like Joe Lubin and whose influence can effect its long term growth via trying to compete at every chance rather than be transparent and making deals.

            
              2018/05/24 9:34:20 PM GMT+7
              joseph poon, karl florsch,
              loom-network, swarmcity, oyster
              
              the power thats brought to the people

            
              2018/05/24 9:35:14 PM GMT+7
              Joseph Lubin for his pragmatic idealism, Karl Floersch for his energy and capacity to explain difficult concept in a very accessible way, Vlad Zemfir for his dedication to hard problems.
              Protocol Lab, Free software foundation
              Decentralisation, disintermediation, social inclusion
              I was attracted by the way new pb were solved in a p2p manner. I am still there because the research and engineering aspect are moving fast in very interesting directions. 
              When I understood that it was now practical to program stateful p2p protocols.
              Not really.
              
              Scalability and usefull dapps, because we are only at the beginning.
              As long as it is unknown, i'd say his/her capacity to understand and explain to the others the technicalities and the consequence of the ongoing development in the ecosystem.
His/her capacity to discuss in a rationally argument manner.
              Be useful, be happy. Train your self for the happiness of doing so and achieve great things as a side effect.
              A sustainable one (for the earth and humanity).
              In the end if ethereum contributes more to the problem more than to the solution of sustainable more equitable human activity, I would be very disappointed.

            
              2018/05/24 10:30:12 PM GMT+7
              Jarrad (Status founder), Carl (Status founder), and Moshe Hogeg (Sirin Labs)
              Status, Sirin, and the idea of focusing long term
              Other than the idea of decentralization they should value the idea of being censorship-resistant. More governments and regimes are now censoring the internet more than ever before and Ethereum seems to be the alternative. The Ethereum based apps such as Status and CryptoKitties seem to be censorship proof and that can help the lies of millions of people that are going to fight against government censorship for the sake of expressing their viewpoints.
              The blockchain technology and the fact that it is resistant to censorship. I believe as someone who is running a media tech startup (planning to cover blockchain startups soon) it is crucial that we start welcoming activists and journalists so that the governments of the world can't easily shut them down.
              The fact that you could easily deploy a DApp on the Ethereum blockchain network.
              The gas fees. Those are fine for existing users but can get horribly confusing and frustrating for new users.
              Not really, everyone is nice to each other and welcoming to newbies.
              Ethereum is failing to reach out to the masses about its potential. The team tends to travel to countries where people already have freedoms and it's usually a bunch of developers showing up at Ethereum conferences. By targeting emerging markets and countries with repressive regimes, Ethereum could show the world that it is truly censorship resistant and it can't be blocked by governments.
              Someone who is nice and welcoming. Especially when they are good at explaining difficult concepts in the Ethereum world.
              I tend to value privacy, freedom, and individual liberty as my core values. These are the principles I live by and I tend to support or invest in companies that try to help spread these to the world.
              A future where we don't have any worries from censorship whether it's from school, work, or governments. So we need to end up using the power of the Ethereum blockchain to build censorship-proof applications.
              The fact that it is confusing to beginners. So that could lower the adoption of the platform and that won't be so great since we need to make Ethereum more mainstream.
              The fact that I live to work hard at something I am passionate about. As a media tech company we are using AI to curate the best news for our readers based on their interests. But I also want to have an environment where people can openly criticize governments without fear of censorship or have anonymity cover their footprints on the internet.
              Ethereum has great potential. It needs to get rid of censorship in big censorship countries such as Iran, Russia, and China. But it needs to also make itself simpler for beginners so the adoption can continue to increase globally.
              Jazil Zaim

            
              2018/05/24 10:38:37 PM GMT+7
              Dan Finlay, Griff Green, Jarrad Hope, Mihai Alisie - I could name more. I think all the people standing out are the ones very vocal with their values and drive against unfairness
              The Pirate Bay & Bittorrent, The P2P foundation, The W3 consortium
              Creating fair systems through decentralized consensus - it is sorely needed in a world of paper jurisdiction and governance
              At first, I wanted to do better financially with crypto. Soon I discovered Ethereum and my interest went from the financial aspect to the disruptive quality against traditional systems. The freedom of participation, the language used in the community as well as their values and for sure the technology and the "how" is what attracted me specifically.
              Being at Devcon3 and meeting the larger dev community for the first time. It felt like home almost. Certainly welcoming, brilliant in thinking and always planning the revolution.
              Scaling initiatives should have out stronger. The public is still oblivious.
              Trade analysis.
              We are failing at developing not enough models to reel all the other people in.
              Somebody who is comfortable to live the economic realities of tomorrow, today, and is ready to build with others
              I see a binary choice between adapting a mindset of competition/scarcity or cooperation/abundance - everything that brought me to this point made me internalize the latter.
              The old paradigms are in full swing, fueled by the same technological explosion and we watch as parts of the world sink into darkness and spoofed reporting. I want to be an optimist and say that if we can incorporate decentralized decisionmaking and verifiability of sources as valid tools in society - transparency might be enough to turn the tide.
              authoritarian state manages to keep spinning a narrative and effectively blocks further change
              love, family and community
              
              kay

            
              2018/05/24 10:42:55 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir, Joseph Lubin, Karl Floersch - all very open minded, care for the people and not only for their own profit.
              OmiseGO, Aragon, ConsenSys
              Power for the people, unenslave us from the current system
              Potential to change the world for good
              As soon as I looked it in detail and saw the potential it was mind blowing...
              When Vitalik said he is against hardcap of eth, all the talks stopped. Maybe you should look at it in detail and consider setting a hardcap for eth. And if not it would be good to explain why and what are the benefits for not settings a hard cap for ETH.
              The people that only want to get rich and dump their ETH for fiat
              Not that i'm aware of. So far ETH looks like the most promising project IMHO.
              People that contribute, people who explain the potential of ETH to not so tech-savy people.
              I believe in Karma.
              A future where the wealth of the world is split upon the people and not held by 1% of the population
              Maybe fears of hacks, exploits. Security should be a big topic.
              I can safely say, Ethereum gives my life a meaning and something to hope for, that could change the world.
              I'm a millennial and I really believe in the young generation, we can change our future. So happy for Ethereum, we are building something new, not fighting the old. And that's the good thing. All these old, wealthy, greedy people that rule the world will get in trouble, because NOW WE ARE IN CHARGE! 
              Denislav Rangelov

            
              2018/05/24 10:58:24 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson: always helpful and chillax.
              Ethereum Classic. :)
              Does: a libertarian, even anarchist worldview.
Should: More or less the same values as the average human being. Ethereum should not be a mechanism to enforce social change, but to be used by society for the good of all.
              Originally, I thought I could make games on it, without the effort of servers and whatnot. Now, I see it as a superior replacement for all sorts of "trusted" backends
              The first hack.ether.camp hackathon. No worries, no obsession over ICOs and prizes, just hacking away.
              The DAO Hardfork was a tragedy. I don't know what else could have been done, but I wish there had been another way.
              Endless price obsession, and constant maximalism and tribalism. This shouldn't be money kindergarden.
              Legality. Ethereum was born from an ICO and the mother of many more. It's only now that people are starting to realize that laws are there for a reason.
              Someone whose primary motive in participation is not profit. Sure, it's fine if your crypto HODLing pans out, but that shouldn't be the basis of one's life. Meanwhile, it's important to respect each other's opinions.
              I'm a devout Catholic. I'd C&P the Catechism of the Catholic Church in here, but I don't think there's room. ;)
              Endless bliss of the saints as they gaze upon the Eternal for all eternity, while those who knowingly rejected the Divine Mercy of God suffer just torment.
Oh, but you mean the _worldly_ future. Fine.
I suspect blockchain tech will inevitably prevail, and chances are it's going to be more than one blockchain that "wins." Regulation will invariably come. In a better world, there will be one world government that eventually has jurisdiction over the blockchain(s). Otherwise, it will be a legal no-man's-land.
              I fear the battle of corporation against individual will be won by the corporations, perhaps with government assistance. Also, the inequality of wealth eventually leading to chaos or even global civil war.
              Eating Jesus. I know. It's pretty awesome. It's the most important thing happening on the planet, even more than bitcoin.
              I reject the idea of "Code is Law." It's not. Code is code. Law is law. You can't create genuine Authority out of nowhere.
              Matthew P. "Smithgift" Schmidt

            
              2018/05/25 3:53:38 AM GMT+7
              /u/Jtnichol, mod On /r/ethtrader. He has the biggest caring community mind I have ever seen. Naval. Deep insights. Nassim taleb for his insights. The lady who started bitnation, for being naive enough to believe it was possible and act. The Dao creators. 
              Egalitarianism, free/radical markets, trustless
              
              I was originally attracted to the “world computer” and smart contract concepts. Vitalik or Charles hoskinson posted on a ripple forum asking questions about their consensus model. Still here because this community believes the impossible is possible. It’s almost impossible to be cynical and be a part of the community. 
              The Dao launch is probably happiest. The hack was one of lowest points. I continually think what it could have been if it would have succeeded. There were so so many opportunities missed there. 
              None at this time that I can think of. The Dao stuff was a black mark. 
              Anyone who says the ideology and vision that eth enables will not come to fruition because of the status quo. 
              Potentially having vitalik as central point. I have seen activity to reduce that. It’s really a double edged sword because he brings so much value, wisdom, vision, and humility to the community. 
              Anyone who can be open minded. Quick to adopt change. Not violently tribal. 
              I try to be transparent as possible about my shortcomings. I am a follower of Jesus, so Love above all else. 
              A future of empowered individuals with the tools needed to make it possible. I buy into bitnations vision of government as a service provider. I envision a more fair and equal future. 
              Only thing I fear atm is competition or black swan events. Regulatory fears in the USA and abroad. 
              Biggest thing for me is technology. I am passionate about all things tech(except printers). Love the theory of tech, the change it has enabled. It’s good to get up every day and do what I love.

            
              2018/05/25 8:32:05 AM GMT+7
              Lane Rettig, Jon Choi, Bob Summerwill - Good intentions.
              FOSS
              How to help the next great protocol. This one has 25% of its tokens with one human.
              Vitalik
              Shipping manager.balance.io
              Distribution of tokens
              Distribution of tokens
              Distribution of tokens
              Someone who cares about the.... Distribution of tokens
              Distribution of opportunity
              https://medium.com/balance-io/open-source-banking-c96389c04cfb
              Distribution of tokens
              https://medium.com/balance-io/open-source-banking-c96389c04cfb
              
              Richard Burton

            
              2018/05/25 8:34:05 AM GMT+7
              Bob Summerwill-Blockchain therapist, Jamie Pitts-outside the box thinking, Joe Lubin-sharing the wealth and bringing blockchain mainstream
              Any grassroots org, long-now foundation, First nations groups, humanist movements
              Empowering people to reclaim ownership of their own lives, hope-rather than hopeless, everyone/anyone can play a part, coordinating the collective humanity, making the world a better place for humans
              The people seemed most in it for the right reasons, very smart & caring people, being part of something that was starting a revolution
              So many, but meeting Bob Summerwill has proved to be the most pivotal :)
              Everyone is trying to reinvent the wheel over and over.  It can get very frustrating.  Sometimes feels like a group of people were taken to a new planet, with nothing on it and they feel they need to start everything from scratch.  We are not using knowledgable people, outside of blockchain enough. Also, most normal people don't really get what blockchain is and we are not doing a good job of explaining the mission.  
              People are too tight with the pursestrings and too many people are doing things on volunteer time and running themselves ragged.  The money needs to be shared better, or many grassroots people will get frustrated and leave.  And they are the backbone.  
              Bringing in outsiders, branding
              Someone who will be open minded & not just trying to exploit people
              Treating all people decently, trying to understand all angles of things, always seeking further knowledge, trying to find balance
              one where people aren't doing meaningless jobs to get their basic needs met, where the distribution of wealth isn't so vast, where people can understand their cognitive & primitive instincts and don't just resort to fear. 
              That we will sway too far to the left.  That we will not be agile, elastic, adapative enough to survive long term.  
              Family, friends, people, a purpose
              Ethereum gives me hope, that something can be done.  That people can come together to create the lives they want, that people are instrincally decent, when they have base needs met & fear alleviated. 
              Alison Alexis

            
              2018/05/25 9:03:42 AM GMT+7
              Laura Shin (tough interviewer, strong social impact values, educational, female, non tech background) Karl (energy, values driven), Joseph (relentlessly investing good stuff because it’s the right thing to do)
              Philanthropy, social impact investing, international community development, international relations 
              Transparency, decentralisation, open/welcoming, integrity 
              The culture of the people has a purity about it. Values alignment 
              Sharing a house with Eth Research and hanging out/working 
              
              
              Time to work on it now. Bring more people in to the Ethereum community 
              Integrity, hungry to learn, open to dialogue 
              Love God, love people 
              Where more people have choice to access education, finance, jobs, health 
              We need wise mentors that have been around the block to mentor all us young guns 
              Opportunity to contribute to making a better present and future for people 
              Thanks for asking 
              Kelsie

            
              2018/05/25 9:31:07 AM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson, running a tight ship; Alex Beregszaszi, getting things done; Jure Zih, doing open source the right way 
              Artwork, scheisters, libertarians
              Does: fairness; should: stability
              Making money; relationships
              How well the Solidity project responds to GitHub issues
              "Please enter your bank account password and enable webcam access to purchase Ether"
              Nope
              The community failed to learn from the Ethereum Classic fork.
              Someone who is delivering results or who is teaching new people
              Stay focused on the prize
              Think of 50 years ago and the future they expected. Not very much has changed: people go to bars, drive cars, pay taxes, complain about stuff, work most of the time. Some of the ways we do that stuff changed. I think the delta over the next 50 years will be similar.
              Ether is a currency for funding transactions. Soon the time+watthour cost for transactions will decrease. I'm not sure many people understand the logical result here.
              Learning. Yes.
              No.
              William Entriken

            
              2018/05/25 9:53:15 AM GMT+7
              Peter S., Christian, Fabian, Piper, Vlad, Nick ... to pick just 3 is really difficult.  The entire community is so helpful and supportive.  I mention these guys  because they are visible, brilliant and are constantly working hard to improve things.
              For me just the open source movement in general.  I've been locked away in the corporate world for years and to see what is happening on this front is astonishing.
              Transparency, democracy, honesty, integrity and most importantly - constantly trying to push the boundaries of technology.
              The team.  The mission.  The challenge.
              To see how the Ethereum team handled the DAO - those were early days and the team showed really solid leadership.
              no
              no
              no
              Knowledgeable, generous, patient.  I've learned so much about Ethereum because of the efforts of the community.
              Treat others like I would like to be treated.  Be open and honest.
              I hope we apply technology to make our planet cleaner and improve the lives of all species that inhabit it.
              I have a dark secret.  I sit down with Ethereum every day and I struggle for applications.  It's the strangest technology.  I've never come across something like it.  It seems so powerful and accomplishes something that is very difficult to do so I am frustrated that I am having trouble coming up with new ideas how to use it.
              I like building things and seeing them help people.
              The Ethereum team is an inspiration.  I really look up to you.  Keep up the good work!
              MBS

            
              2018/05/25 12:05:43 PM GMT+7
              Joseph, Karl, Jarrad, because they advance the Ethereum ecosystem.
              Blockchain4socialgood, United Nations, unconditional basic income
              Solving social problems like identity and financial access, limiting concentrated power of organizations and governments. Ethereum should help people while still rewarding those who help.
              The permissionless power to solve problems of people less fortunate than others.
              The devcons, meeting other helpers of humanity at conferences. Great vipe, but it gets poisoned by financial greed more snd more.
              No
              Price talk, ICO advertisements
              Onboarding enough developers.
              Someone who wants to experiment, help people, make money.
              Honesty, openness, empathy, curiousness
              Where people, also with completely different mindsets, can peacefully live together on this planet because neither feels to need to screw over the other one.
              That it could get overtaken and corrupted, then guided into a wrong direction, to control / "enslave" people.
              The future. I expect major improvements for everyone. In the distant future, though.
              Keep up the good work, Jarrad
              Michael

            
              2018/05/25 2:55:10 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir (Honesty), Alex Van De Sande (Pragmatism), Afri Schoeden (Patience), Nick Johnson (Teacher), Phil Daian (Objective Knowledge)
              Plasma, ConsenSys, OmiseGo, Polkadot
              Blockchain for the people, empowering users, incentivizing participation and trust minimization. Fostering understanding of the technology and making it accessible to all. NOT immutability above all else. 
              Social implications of a collaborative blockchain with a microeconomy built around it incentivizing behavior, participation, and building more than just a simple payments/settlement network.
              Buying my first Cryptokitty, because it was the first real usage beyond payments I was exposed to. 
              Addressed governance questions and issues earlier on.
              DeviateFish
              Conveying smart contract best practices a bit better to the community, including the importance of safe math
              Values building and experimenting for the greater good, and is a willing participant and active contributors to many facets of the Ethereum community discussion. Values objective measures over subjective idealogies.
              Do unto others... Also, try to understand one person each day who walks in obviously different shoes and in a different direction than myself.
              Self sovereign future.
              Absolute power corrupting absolutely. 
              My relationships with others. Building relationships with others is key to generating some impact on the world.
              
              @cyber_hokie

            
              2018/05/25 3:17:16 PM GMT+7
              Peter Szilagyi (programmer skill, balance of development and popularization), Alex van de Sande (advocacy and focus on user experience), Taylor Monahan (enormously valuable contribution with minimal external support)
              Cypherpunk, Agorism, Open Source Software
              open/permissionless participation, fairness, radical decentralization
              Being the first universal smart contract platform. 
              The acceptance of ERC-681. It was the result of a year of (often heated) discussions, resulting in a broadly acceptable compromise.
              The DAO hardfork. The way it was decided and communicated was against what I believed Ethereum was about.
              Constant barrage of advertising by teams doing scammy ICO's
              
              Competent, honest, open, willing to cooperate
              Seeking technical solutions to problems. Doing unto others what I would like others do unto me.
              One with much more choice regarding lifestyle, legal and financial frameworks than what we currently have. One with more voluntary cooperation and less coercion.
              Sometimes it seems like we are one really stupid decision from disaster; something similar to the DAO hardfork could undermine Ethereum's credibility beyond repair. Also, I am somewhat afraid of violent crime specifically targeting members of our community.
              Seeing the (enormously positive, liberating) impact of the things I help bring about. It really feels like we are making history.
              
              Daniel A. Nagy

            
              2018/05/25 4:03:28 PM GMT+7
              Aeron Buchanan, Jutta Steiner, Gavin wood, Christoph jentsch
              Energy Web Foundation, event horizon
              Trust because it is really working
              Smart contracts and their possibilities 
              DAO because of the whole community and how they solved everything
              
              
              
              Contributing with everything, not only codes
              Independence
              Power to the people
              No
              
              
              Erwin

            
              2018/05/25 4:03:38 PM GMT+7
              Aeron Buchanan, Jutta Steiner, Gavin wood, Christoph jentsch
              Energy Web Foundation, event horizon
              Trust because it is really working
              Smart contracts and their possibilities 
              DAO because of the whole community and how they solved everything
              
              
              
              Contributing with everything, not only codes
              Independence
              Power to the people
              No
              
              
              Erwin

            
              2018/05/25 4:06:53 PM GMT+7
              Gav for getting shit done
Nick Jonson for community engagement
Carl Floersch for ethusiasm
              Energy Web Foundation
EEA
r/Ethereum
              The backbone for the future of automatized collaboration and trust relationships.
              The idea of the DAO attracted me.
I am still here because I believe that Ethereum is the core of a tech stack that will enable people and "systems" to collaborate more efficiently. I see it in a line with other tools such as language, writing, telecomunication, shared myths (religions, states, corporations) as a groundbreaking invention.
              The moment i read about the DAO and realized the potential of the tech.
              I love Parity but their pushing towards unfreezing the funds despite clear opposition of the ecosystem was frustrating.
              Marketing people using the same language over and over again. Buzzwords stalled my enthusiasm slightly. 
              Hiring people. Look at what kind of people Dfinity hired.
              A good member behaves in a way that contributes to long term price increase of ETH. I am not a speculator but this is IMO the essence of any answer to the question.
              Freedom, Independence, Health
I want to look back on my live when I am old and think "I did some cool shit"
              For me: self employed, family, traveling
For Ethereum: 
I believe that Ethereum is the core of a tech stack that will enable people and "systems" to collaborate more efficiently. I see it in a line with other tools such as language, writing, telecomunication, shared myths (religions, states, corporations) as a groundbreaking invention.
              Compeditors could take over. Regulation might block the roads.
              See values/principles

            
              2018/05/25 4:27:05 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir; speaks his mind, honest; Karl Floersch; enthusiasm for everything; Nick Johnson; willing to debate Vitalik on Eth cap, Jez San; transparent and communicative in building Funfair; 
              Linux, liberal economics, keynesian economics
              Freedom, uncensorable (largely), community-driven
              Originally, price action; I am still here because of a fascination with revolutionary tech and as an investment
              When ether rebounded from $130; because I bought at $400. But also using the ethereum tech to buy DGX, play blockchain poker (Virtue), buy and sell cryptokitties, set up a CDP and lever up a little ether; using the technology.
              I am a little worried about the unclear governance. More emphasis needs to be taken on this. Having listened to the podcast on Unchained with Aya, the new Executive Director of Ethereum, I am not sure she is the one to lead Ethereum into the future (if that is indeed her role).
              Scaling; can't wait until we see these solutions in place
              Usability is a big issue that is talked about a lot but little progress appears to be made in my opinion. Perhaps we need to wait until the tech is more stable.
              Interested, aware of the issues/projects, spreads the word, builds on the platform, helps others
              Treat people as you would treat yourself.
              I like the present but I am curious for the future. An end to the inflexible 9-5 lifestyle. Please no more Donald Trump.
              There are a lot of smart contract competitors that have less to lose and can 'move faster and break things' more easily
              Improving at something; Learning something of interest/useful
              
              Jonathan Lau

            
              2018/05/25 4:29:35 PM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson [for his consistency, mediation skills, and organization], Greg Colvin [for quietly being a voice of reason and sanity], Vlad Zamfir [for being steadfast in what he wants from the community, and fighting incessantly for it] 
              The Dat Project community (and the Beaker Browser community), presenting another great direction for the "decentralized web" with working software, useful tools, a growing community, and *no tokens*.
              Pragmatism over ideology: we want to make things, not argue about things. 
Usability, usability, usability.
Being accessible, welcoming, and purpose agnostic: as far as I recall, one of the most explicit early goals for Ethereum was to be agnostic to the purpose it would be used for. This should imply no special logic as much as possible (or at the very least, special logic should be optional in all cases). 
              At a high level: I wanted to be able to make fire-and-forget apps (logic on Ethereum, data on swarm, communications via whisper) which would ideally outlive me, or at least my attention. I'm still here because that's still mostly the case (although I have moved most of my development work to Dat-based projects), and Ethereum isn't an ecosystem of a single blockchain anyway. 
              I have many fond memories of helping out with support for Swarm City, and testing various versions of their apps. This is an ongoing experience. 
              We slipped up in preventing commercial talk on the /r/Ethereum subreddit, to the point where I stopped using reddit for my Ethereum-based information.
I found it extremely annoying that Skype was (and remains) one of the primary forms of group communication between members of the community. I felt pushed out by the community in the earlier days due to the closed nature of communications (the Ethereum.org forums [which I tried to be active on] and Skype) and eventually the cognitive overload led me to just leave and come back a few years later... where the same exact thing happened again with Slack. We need ways for people to communicate and give and receive feedback in low-noise environments, but this is clearly a Hard Problem. Also, why did it take so long to migrate to decentralized chatrooms? 
              Noise, Moonkids. 
              The way the DAO fork was handled might be considered a failure. At the very least, all major clients implemented both sides of the fork, so why was there a fragmentation of the community? I feel like there was (at the time, but now the communities are too different) a false dichotomy about what "Ethereum" is: the two forks didn't need to be considered different projects, and doing so set the negative precedent, not the fork itself. 
              Someone too busy building something to attack others; someone who's first reaction to criticism is reflection, not justification or retaliation; someone who doesn't consider the Ethereum community a monolith in terms of ideology or purpose (or even blockchain); **someone who isn't aware that Ethereum is anything other than a tool/isn't aware of the "Ethereum community"!**
              Always try to empathize with the people I communicate with. There is always common ground to base communication on. 
I don't have to be busy all the time, nor do I have to do anything I don't want to do, or am unenthusiatic about.
Nothing needs to be constant or unconditional. 
              One where *everyone* can afford to only do the things they are enthusiastic about; a future where negative/antisocial behavior is never rational, albeit always still an option (that is almost entirely unheard of in practice, because we'll live in a high-trust environment with external costs and benefits of our actions accounted for and punished/rewarded). 
              The ballooning complexity of the development environment; we're only recently getting development environments for EVM languages that make it "as easy" as developing outside the Ethereum ecosystem. 
              I mostly just live day-to-day, but I like making cool things and sharing viral ideas and seeing how they interact with the world, so I guess satisfying my curiosity has always given my life meaning? I don't need to reason about it, it's already outside what I care to care about. 
              This is the first time I have seen this questionnaire anywhere and I don't know why. 
              Joshua Mir

            
              2018/05/25 5:49:54 PM GMT+7
              stable
              corporation
              Support
              Server
              mist
              owner
              Times
              other
              Discret and stable team 
              health
              Life Monaco
              Hacking
              Family 
              PEPEcoin
              PEPE Invest s.r.o.

            
              2018/05/25 7:59:09 PM GMT+7
              Jo Lubin (vision, conviction & serenity); @avsa (breadth of scope; self-education; politically literate); Yoichi (righteousness).
              Nothing is like Ethereum.
              Radical liberalisation; non-paradigmatic creativity and decentralisation above all. The 'why's wouldn't fit here.
              To be honest, the possibility of, one day, breeding actual DAOs.
              Probably the first day our team deployed a token contract and made a transaction. Or the day we met in person for the first time, and talked about this. I guess it has to do with sharing this magical feeling of opening up a new world to explore, that the pioneers one day had and many people are probably connected through. 
              Tough question. It's hard not to feel that some people shouldn't have belong to the community in the first place. But, with time, the right things eventually get done. I think the Ethereum ecosystem is a hard-to-find example of fitness and survival.
              Maybe, at this point, I feel its a bit overinstitutionalised.
              We're failing at scaling and at UX, collectively, at this point, I guess.
              1 - Does not put his interest above those of others.
2 - Has decent knowledge of *both* the potential and the limits of the technology.
3 - Is welcoming to new entrants (and competition!), respectful to all colleagues, and never disdainful.
              1 - Put the interest of the whole above all.
2 - Give love unconditionally.
3 - Be welcoming to new people (and competition!), respectful to all, and never disdainful.
              Peace.
              The gap between the more educated and the less educated grows exponentially big. See "The selectorate theory".
              Joy in doing simple things with people I love; thrill in multiplying things that can be of good to others; fulfilling curiosity. They say when you can't answer "why" anymore, that's when you've reached true meaning :)
              Thanks for taking the time to come up with this questions? They're really good and made me have a different day than I'd have otherwise :)
              @felipether

            
              2018/05/25 11:28:42 PM GMT+7
              that guy who started consensys. he put his own money into everything, right? how noble.  and Jarrad Hope, because he successfully got his project off the ground.  (i don't know of many people in the space...)
              
              get something working today, perfect it tomorrow
              came for the moonshot, stayed for the tech community
              when i realized that these people are happy to plow forward even in the face of seemingly insurmountable technical hurdles, because they have full faith in the fact that they WILL figure out a way to overcome them, even if they seem 
              solidity `revert()` not returning a message!
              no!
              not yet
              welcoming, helpful, generous with their time.
              the golden rule
              a better one
              that the fiat MONEY POWER will somehow subvert our revolution
              cultivating mass wisdom through information transformation

            
              2018/05/25 11:52:22 PM GMT+7
              Vlad, Karl and Emin. They all have a commitment to scientific research and strong ethical compasses. They also have a sense of humour.
              This question is too broad to be meaningful
              Transparency, openness and rigour.
              I was originally attracted to the power of smart contracts to enforce transparency in the charity sector. What made me stay is the cryptoeconomic research going on in our space, and the community's openness and collaboration.
              There have been many but the happiest was coming out with the Alice project at an Ethereum London meetup in 2016, after a year working in stealth. The welcome we got, including from potentially competing projects, was amazing. Getting accepted to speak at Edcon and all the support since has also been great.
              The scale of the ICO hype and scamming. I can feel it's created massive cynicism and suspicion. We consider ourselves a "second wave" project and find it hard to engage with the core and cut through the noise.
              Hype. Scams. Self-righteousness. Tribalism. Trolling.
              Not really, but I think clearer communications on the Ethereum's direction, partners, design choices and trade-offs would be helpful for newcomers in the space. We feel informed as a "veteran" team, but there are a lot of Chinese whispers
              Someone committed to transparency, openness and rigour
              Acting on my personal desires in a way that also helps others.
              One of personal freedom and collective harmony.
              Hubris is a massive risk. Whether that's lambos or badgers and unicorns.
              My work on social impact and my family. For the former, I have a huge debt to Ethereum.
              
              Raphael Mazet

            
              2018/05/26 12:30:03 AM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson (inclusivity, strong community organizer, good person!). Robbie Bent (makes it his mission to be helpful to people). Manuel Arroz (productive! community oriented, but technical first.)
              1. BUIDL - which I strongly dislike the name of, but like the spirit! 2. web3 - new infrastructure for the decentralized web. 3. /r/ethereum - it's still a Community :)
              Inclusivity. Openness. Respect. Technicality. I think it should be technical first, as a development platform, rather than a financial platform. But beyond that it should aim to be inclusive and open...a place where everyone can be comfortable.
              Permissionless innovation platform. Decentralized development stack. Embed economics into any protocol or application. I'm still here for these reasons.
              Swarm Summit 2017 in Berlin. Amazing week to work alongside the community in person, and only focus on building and architecting web3.
              Promoting projects at conferences that focus on subjects like porn I believe is damaging to the inclusivity efforts of the community. If an audience of 95% males is laughing and joking about topics that are very uncomfortable to 50% of the population or more, than this will not create a welcoming, inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable participating.
              The event circuit is getting out of hand! Same projects presenting the same talks. Takes tremendous time, money, and energy to keep up. More focus on building and less on promoting at events.
Also, this is less about the community, but I'm tired of architecting around the uncertain regulatory environment in the US :)
              
              
              The golden rule.
              
              Creating "unstoppable technology" comes with consequences that developers are not always considering. How do we also create effective decentralized checks and balances that allow users to opt into certain protections, if that is their preference?

            
              2018/05/26 12:43:49 AM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson - super nice and helpful. Knows his stuff
Karl Floersch - loves to share, super enthusiastic
Andrew Keys - shows love, helpful
              Self sovereign identity is important. I think peer to peer trade is important. Probably the fact that we are an international community that's welcoming as well. 
              Openness is key alongside technical rigor. 
              Love how unstoppable Dapps can be built and interacted with.  I love how more and more smart people keep pouring into the ecosystem to work on it together. 
              Seeing long-time projects hit the main net. MakerDao and DigidDao specifically. 
              There are a lot of rent seekers in the space now, subtracting value. 
              Explaining to outsiders that ICO's do not define Ethereum.
              Educating more people about why Ethereum is so much more than cryptocurrency.
              Someone who builds but also educates. 
              Do as little harm as possible. Enjoy my freedom and let others enjoy theirs. Don't impose myself or be imposed on by others. 
              Decentralized and more free. 
              More and more wealth and power continues to be concentrated in fewer and fewer people's hands. The worst kind of centralization. 
              Working to build create and build new ideas that are going to help remove suffering and abuse of power from the world.
              I am by no means a maximalist. I want to see multiple blockchains succeed, but I love Ethereum the most right now <3
              James

            
              2018/05/26 12:52:12 AM GMT+7
              Joe Lubin (bridging Ethereum with the real world), Karl Floresch (great enthusiasm / energy), Hudson Jameson (a really good guy who understands the importance of community engagement)
              I don't fully understand this question, but I engage with Ethereum through Reddit (r/ethtrader and r/ethereum) primarily.  I also participate in several Discords with key participants in the community.
              Ethereum treats everyone equally, regardless of what views they hold or how much money they have.  It is accessible to everyone, and controlled by no one.  We may not always think it is fair, but it works in a 100% predictable way- creating certainty in an uncertain world.  It can be trusted above nearly anything else, even when we cannot always trust one another.  This will likely help us cooperate more and create the conditions for us to build greater trust between one another.
              Because I saw the value smart contract technology could bring to the world, and also saw it as an investment opportunity (was in Bitcoin in 2013).  I've stuck around because the community is awesome (really motivated to change the world), is making excellent progress, and because of the ownership "staking" model that Proof of Stake will introduce.
              To be honest, when I saw the price skyrocket to $300.  Second happiest: when I bought my first CryptoKitty, because I had never provably owned unique digital property before.
              EIP 999 discussion was not managed well (I was not in favor of it, but that was not the point).  Also, Vitalik introducing the April Fools hardcap "joke" wasn't really a great way to introduce such an important discussion.  Also, in general, we don't put enough emphasis on user experience in actually using Ethereum.
              Investors / "hodlers" are often treated with disdain in community discussions, even though they will be as essential as miners are now when we shift to PoS.  Yes, we are here to make money in part by investing in ETH, but many of us also deeply believe in the Ethereum vision / value proposition and want to make the world a better place.
              Not failing yet, but we need to implement meaningful scaling solutions soon and drive dapps to use it.  I want to see Ethereum more used, and for more diverse purposes, beyond small games and token trading.
              Someone who contributes constructively to the community, through whatever tools and skills they have available to them.
              Honesty, Integrity, Leadership, Creating a Positive Impact for the World
              One that is accelerated by exciting technology, which hopefully creates more harmony than there is today.
              I am afraid scaling won't work.  I'm afraid we'll never solve governance.
              Working to create a positive impact for the world through every action I take, whether big or small.
              
              DCinvestor (Reddit), @iamDCinvestor (Twitter)

            
              2018/05/26 1:34:35 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - When he isn't trolling, admire his technical brilliance. 
Joe Lubin - Fantastic advocate for ETH ecosystem getting the message out there.
Vansa Chatikavanij - Fantastic speaker, trying to break down blockchain to basics that are relatable for masses to understand. Advocate for the unbanked.
              Omisego - I think what they are trying to do should be the goal we strive for using this technology for social good.
              Innovation in the space - Don't become what BTC has become, don't rest on success. 
              Concerns that the current way we run systems is not going to work going forward. The rise of surveillance capitalism. 
Vitalik.
              First interaction with a smart contract blew my mind considering this was on a decentralised network - My thought was this is very clunky to use at present for most people but if it can be refined this could be the start of something very special.
              EIP 999 and any future attempts to resurrect this. Especially when the narrative was trying to be changed that the average user was the bad guy by certain members of the EF team was a pretty low point.
              See above. 
              Please, please put someone on to improve user experience of the mist wallet/basic configurations for running nodes etc.
Wouldn't say it's a failure really more a symptom of success. The network is getting pretty clogged, need scaling solutions asap.
              Advocate for the space in general, calling out misinformation when they see it. Educating the public about the difference between platforms. Humility.
Basically Vitalik is a fantastic example of what a good Ethereum community member is.
              Empathy, honesty, determination, ambition, love and caring for those around me.
              A world where work isn't the centre of most peoples lives or at least the culture of being tied to a place 9-5 in order to survive. Pursuing more meaningful pursuits, more time with friends and family.
              Scaling won't be feasible anytime soon
              Sadly work, I would love to be free of those constraints so I could pursue goals that are meaningful to me and not someone elses.

            
              2018/05/26 1:50:57 AM GMT+7
              Peter szilagyi - Ethical and hard-working
Vlad Zamfir - challenges and stands up to challenges.  
              
              
              Loved cruptocurrency fundamentals, but the governance of Bitcoin had me upset.  Went from bitcoin to peercoin then to ethereum.
I am still here because I feel the project is run well and I believe it will change the world for better, removing corruption and providing transparency.
              Getting free OMG through airdrop.  I had no idea what it was, and learned quite a bit after receiving it au gratis.
              I was confused between EOS and ethereum when I got my first ethers.

              The disdain for polkadot.
The demands for releases.

              No
              Participation in events.  Sharing opinions.  
              Do not feed the trolls.  Provide help when it is needed.  Try to fix things myself before asking for help.
              
              Fear over past dao/multisig/contract bugs - over how deeply embedded a problem can be.
              I enjoy optimizing resources by providing visibility to them, reducing waste.  Less waste leads to a better world.
              
              Tony

            
              2018/05/26 2:13:43 AM GMT+7
              Joseph Lubin
Driving force behind ConsenSys, which is behind some of the highest quality projects in the space. Balanced outward demeanour, which grants credibility to the Ethereum ecosystem, and which contrasts nicely with the irrational cypherpunk fanaticism so prevalent in crypto.
Brian Armstrong
Coinbase is making a lot of great business decisions lately and is really driving Ethereum into the mainstream with Toshi/Cipher and 0x-based decentralized exchange. Brian's blog posts and Coinbase' overall communication also reveals that there is a strong mind and coherent vision underpinning these decisions, not merely short term economic incentive.
The combined whole of Ethereum developers and researchers in the Ethereum foundation, Parity and other valuable cornerstone projects like 0x, Maker, Digix, ... would be role model number three.
              Too many to name. I don't think any one of them should take precedence over the other. Ethereum should not be driven by ideology. It should be an intentless world computer in so far as that is possible.
              Pragmatism, rationality, objectivity, justice, equality, generality, inclusivity, nuance, ...
              The abstraction from a discrete set of features to a general purpose, programmable blockchain seemed like a logical evolution. I'm still here because the rest of the world is starting to realize the potential as well, and synergetic, ground-up ecosystem growth is happening before our eyes.
              Seeing my net worth increase significantly after investing in ETH, because not having to worry all too much about a constant inflow of money to maintain my lifestyle is very freeing.
              - The website and overall documentation tends to be somewhat lacking. It doesn't hurt to display some impressive (but true) statistics on the front page for instance (amount of known dapps, link to the EEA, etc). The first thing newcomers tend to see is the official ethereum.org website after all. It's not so easy to see that Ethereum is the de facto dapp platform that underpins web3 right now.
- Core developer calls, governance meetings, and several other videos and live streams tend to be barely watchable due to terrible video and/or audio quality. Donating proper headsets to anybody that joins a core developer call would help perhaps. I noticed that it is improving lately though.
- Geth seems to be lagging behind Parity, yet is still the majority client. Too many people report inability to sync a full node with Geth. Without incentive to run a full node, at least the process should be as smooth as possible.
- WASM should get higher priority. The sooner the EVM can be retired, the better.
- Perhaps sometimes a bit too much leniency towards considering to introduce subjectivity in Ethereum's governance, particularly with regards to the Parity recovery proposals. Hopefully EIP0 manages to produce something that can serve as a starting agreement position for such discussions in the future.
              The answer to that question depends on who should be considered part of the community. ICO scammers and opportunists are pretty high on the list I'd say. In the broader crypto community, Ethereum naysayers that purposely try to create a false narrative because Ethereum is not their tribe, endangers their net worth and/or belief system are high on the list.
              See earlier answers.
              Shares the values from previous answers, skilled in one or more areas that help the ecosystem, apolitical, level-headed, hung like a mule, a good sense of humor.
              See previous answers. Values and principles are there to be constantly reevaluated and fine tuned so as to match the non-binary reality surrounding them.
              A future where Ethereum is the dominant force of the crypto ecosystem, with virtually anything that can be considered of value tokenized for ultimate synergy.
              - Due to market irrationality and skewed incentives, the crypto ecosystem could become a patchwork of different blockchains doing essentially the same thing, causing an engineering nightmare with at best awkward protocols on top to unite them all.
- Ethereum's scaling and general progress takes a lot longer than expected and/or the outcome is underwhelming or otherwise disastrous
- Ethereum community spirit weakens due to hubris after taking #1 market cap position. The underdog position has certain psychological advantages.
              Life needs no meaning for me. I keep myself in reasonable health to maintain status quo happiness level and have some interests and people that keep me going.
              Ethereum has been doing rather great so far. Let's keep up the good work and we'll have the chance to radically transform global society.
              antiprosynthesis

            
              2018/05/26 2:19:04 AM GMT+7
              Lubin, Greco, june - bigger long term vision
              ECF, OMG, ZRX
              inclusive cooperation for lasting change
              financial motives for real positive changes
              surviving DAO hack proved this might really be possible
              uncertainty in resolution of parity hack and regulatory concerns
              tribal behavior 
              clarity on how to deal with events such as parity hack 
              redditor DCinvestor
              spread positive energy and dont be distracted by noise
              more difficult for the elite to take advantage of everyone below them
              scaling, regulation, and governance
              family/friends/love, anything else is insignificant without that solid foundation
              exciting time to be alive
              charles

            
              2018/05/26 2:41:00 AM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson- I appreciate his dedication to educating the community and governance.
Jarrad Hope- He is doing alot to creating a global ethereum community
Vlad Zamfir- he does a great job of discussing highly technical aspect of Ethereum.
              open source, transparency, freedom
              community and the learning mindset. I also appreciate the importance of transparency.
              It is a really open community for N00b and very encouraging of people getting started with Ethereum. I also liked how open the community is and that all the resources are available online.
              Writing my first smart contract.
              I wish there was more diversity in the community and more opportunities for people in diverse communities to engage with Ethereum. 
              nope.
              
              someone that is engaged and encouraged about growing the community and equipping others to utilized Ethereum for their needs.
              Do no harm, Economic Empowerment, Equality, and Freedom
              A global one where there are agreed upon human rights and that people can create the life they want anywhere in the world. A life where all people have access to the tools they need to make their best life possible.
              
              A better future for my children.

            
              2018/05/26 3:13:53 AM GMT+7
              nonsensical question
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              Don't try to conduct qualitative research in this way. I hope you're not writing your thesis on this as (looking at your research method) I would give you a straight F (me being lecturer in research)

            
              2018/05/26 3:29:08 AM GMT+7
              Karl Floersch - the way he present complicated ideas in a fun, engaging and less serious manner is really inspiring, both in terms of getting the message across about how systems work at a deep level and in terms of the higher level, conceptual impacts they may have.
Jordi Baylina - a fantastic developer working on really great standards and other smart contracts that will have a massive impact for the people he lives with and cares most about. He is also just so approachable, caring, and engaged, so any interaction with him leaves me feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.
Robbie Bent - I have never met someone both so driven to, and talented at, moving Ethereum forward by actually interfacing with all the people he can, drawing out their key insights and then connecting them problems we all have with the people capable of fixing them in interesting ways.
              FOSS - Stallman and Barlow and the principles that they developed in the early 90's are very closely aligned to what we're all doing and we should learn as many lessons from them as we can.
https://dynamicland.org/ and Bret Victor - socially aware, contextual computing and a vision of where tech should take us and how we ought to implement it that not enough people are paying attention to: https://vimeo.com/36579366 and https://vimeo.com/71278954 are great examples.
FreiFunk - mesh network in Berlin. Bring on the future of properly decentralized, peer-to-peer internet infrastructure!!
              Decentralization - esp. as it relates to and enhances privacy and Freedom of Speech.
Economic Inclusion - unbank everyone!
Open Access - make all the data free! It's not IP or even data that is "defensible" anymore (to use shitty VC language), it is governance itself.
Connection - peer-to-peer systems are about building technologies that allow us to LIVE with each other in more constructive and mutually beneficial ways. Getting this right is incredibly important.
              The promise of systems that could actually deliver on Bitcoin's promise of peer-to-peer electronic payment systems that everyone with an internet connection can use, understand and leverage for the benefit of themselves and their communities (i.e. it makes anti-rival goods and the production thereof a real possibility for all of us).
The notion of being able to read data from the chain in an essentially perfect way (deterministic and agreed upon by a global set of peers) means we can institute, at the level of the linguistic protocols we use to organise society, more open, transparent and equitable systems. This is a dream worth living and dying for.
              A drink and a walk to dinner through Bangkok with Jarrad Hope (who I also would have listed in the first question had he not sent me this form) where we got to really understand what drives and inspires the other and where I was able to understand a lot more about the person behind the vision.
This kind of personal connection with the people driving forward the next web is what I live for, and Jarrad is by far one of the most interesting person to have these kind of discussions with.
              Lots of the developer tooling sucks - which is why I have been driving ETHPrize and all the developer interviews so much.
I also get frustrated that everyone is in such a rush to "change the world" rather than thinking clearly and critically about what that really means and how it applies to the compromises they are making for the sake of convenience, or just to ship early. We are far too prone to rhetoric over running code, and this tends to attract people like those hanging around blockchain week in NYC recently.
              Repetitive questions can get tough to handle after a while.
Explaining to people (especially speculative token investors) that good things take time to build when you are not willing to compromise on the key principles listed above also gets tiring.
Trying to collaborate with people who have very different opinions and approaches can be both invigorating and exhausting - better governance frameworks that allow people with very different approaches to work together on common problems while solving their unique use cases are definitely needed.
              We're failing hard at documentation and therefore missing a lot of opportunities to attract more talented contributors.
The various different scaling initiatives are taking a long time and it is difficult to understand what sort of effect both Layer 1 and 2 stuff will have on both developer and user experience. I have yet to see any serious considerations of what happens when devs need to figure out which shard to inject their contract into, or what provider to use when connecting to a Plasma chain etc.
              One who actively participates and doesn't let the feeling of inadequacy we all inevitably face when meeting people at the core of the ecosystem get in the way of adding their unique perspectives and talents to the community.
This person does first and asks permission never. They take ownership of an aspect that they have critically identified as one in which they can add real value according to their skill set.
They realise that not everyone has to be a coder and that we desperately need UXR people, PMs, technical writers, designers, and a whole slough of other kinds of people, all of whom - were they willing to just run with something themselves and see where it leads - can advance the common causes we are all passionate about.
basically, they are not afraid to fail and just want to help in whichever way they can because they are intrinsically motivated to see this stuff exist in the world.
              Love hard. Love it all with everything you have and everything you are.
Seek wonder and feel passionately when you find it.
Share who you are sincerely.
Listen to others attentively.
Always learn.
Find people who are better than you and work with them.
              One in which people have more time and freedom to work on what they find to be meaningful.
One in which we connect in ways that generate value for both of us and the wider communities of which we are a part.
One in which political power is diffuse and adaptive enough to respond locally while applying globally.
One in which what you contribute carries much more weight than who you are.
One of open access to knowledge and resources for everyone on the planet. Literally.
              I fear too much rhetoric over running code.
I fear we won't be able to find good enough governance systems before Ethereum or something like it really goes mainstream and that the culture and ethos we have developed will become diluted.
I fear the compromises we will have to make to ensure we can scale the current systems to meet global demand.
              Being alive is THE super power. Life itself is the only thing commensurate with humankind's capacity for wonder - coming to this simple realisation at an experiential level is the root of all meaning for me.
It's true, what you told me,
all that time ago and right now:
I need to feel how you love,
how it is your heart holds together
this infinity,
how you give it back
when it comes due; 
let it go
as if that had been the trick
to making meaning of the beat,
to feeling compassion like blood
returned on a tide
that tells of ten thousand things
never to be known.
And we, people of the sky,
who came here on a flight of birds,
or riding rain animals like
those old keepers of the kumm,
standing on another edge
and holding the world together
with a few simple words
about what it felt like
to give up, feel 
the Earth itself move through you
and explode.
Then fear, and tears,
a hundred lifetimes of surrender,
before grace and gratitude:
enough
to feel how you love.
              You've dreamed a world way beyond
what can be said.
A world with her,
and three lines of old French
stretching far into the spring sunset
which slides on forever;
finds you searching for breath
halfway up a mountain,
the padded silence of pine trees
suggesting a scene from long ago,
lost in the mist now rolling in
and the stray valleys of snow
clinging on to coldness
before this spreading life.
And at the top, two old birds,
an eagle and an owl,
carved lovingly into the fallen
trees, like shattered echo chambers
letting loose an old sound,
something you have heard
but since forgotten, something
like the snow and the spring
the the nonexistent boundary
between them...
Both lifelike and limited,
those two great birds watch
from fixed wooden eyes,
waiting for another dreamer
to wonder past and wake them,
will them up 
into their native element,
no more to grieve, dear heart,
nor fear the seeming-
Here is waking after dreaming. 
              Andy Tudhope

            
              2018/05/26 4:11:27 AM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson - technically brilliant but aware of his limitations / aware of the need for governance.
Jerome de Tychey - bridge builder and community manager, makes a wide variety of people feel welcome.

              the liquid democracy folks and similar groups.
the universal basic income groups.

              society over capitalism. Bitcoin is full if anarcho capitalist extremist and ayn rand fanboys. ethereum folks always consider the social impact.
              the sense of wonder and possibility. the optimism. It reminds me of the spirit of the web in 1995.
              watching the launch of frontier. see the blocks coming in and no major forks... it was actually working and live. very exciting to be a part of that.
              more widespread support for infrastructure projects (as opposed to dapps) like swarm, whisper, ens, or even mist/browser.
              the endless price discussions. the lambo crowd. the people who don't see distribution and fairness as a problem or even refuse to discuss the issue as a matter of principle -- whatever is is what the market created and therefore correct -- I hate that 
              attracting people who are not affluent white western males. diversity in general is really lacking.
              and idealist. an activist. a bridge builder. a communicator. 
              I seek equality not in material goods, but equality of opportunity. that is what our society (economy?) is failing at. If I have been lucky, then I wish to share with others to even the scales. I don't pretend that I've somehow earned my luck.
              it'll be a rough few decades ahead. it looks dark to me. things cannot keep going the way they are and I fear we won't adjust smoothly.
              inequality is a prime driver of political instability in the west and I fear ethereum is not addressing that at all. creating a new crypto elite will not solve our problems.
              learning and teaching. sharing.

            
              2018/05/26 4:27:39 AM GMT+7
              Vlad, Karl Floersch, Joe Lubin.– Vlad: Honest skepticism. Karl: Honest optimism. Joe: ETH Evangelism and cool headedness.
              ConcenSys, Ethereum Foundation, Ethtrader
              Openness, progressiveness
              I don’t really remember. I’m here for the community and to see how this thing works out.
              Explaining Ethereum to my girlfriend and having a good discussion.
              There needs to be a DAO sometimes along the way.
              Doomsayers and Mooboys.
              Too soon to tell.
              Someone who is curious.
              Try not to be a dick.
              Troubling times ahead, overpopulation will make for some heavy conflicts globally.
              Any downturn of the economy will have some effect on Ethereum. In what way remains to be seen.
              Family & Friends.
              
              P

            
              2018/05/26 6:50:25 AM GMT+7
              
              Hippies, Burning man, Digital Nomads.
The open-source movement is relevant to a whole new level.
              Humility, openness, transparency.
              I was into Bitcoin. I didn't get Ethereum at first, too abstract. I was overwhelmed with information already so I consciously decided to ignore Ethereum. Until I find out about web3.  Then I materialized everything that could be done. All the socio-economic systems redesigned, decentralized.
The next 'aha!' moment was when I did the first prototype and I realized how 'easy' was to move money around, without any external service.  As a developer was a very eye-opening experience. I now could think about  very complex systems without any external dependency.
I'm developing with Ethereum because it pays the bills and it's very complementary to my other interest.
But, I believe trust based networks around the individual (not a piece of information in the blockchain) are a fundamental missing piece. Mostly because they resemble the analog world. Proper reputation systems are not only decentralized but distributed. In this sense I personally value more technologies such as IPFS or the libp2p stack.

              More that a memory... the energy of the community. The minds of some of its members.
              ICOs and abundance in general incentivize building platforms from the top down instead of the bottom up. They need to deliver a promise in a paper, and they have all the money, no need to find out the real needs.
Big percentage of projects in the space (not only scammy ICOs) don't have 'real' users ,  and they're building for hypothetical use-cases. And the few users they have have a huge vested interest. This creates the illusion that value is created, when is not. This will end up back-shooting the whole community.
              We're explorers. I perceive a little too much certainty about the future.
ICOs.
              We have failed communicating the value of Ethereum. The currency part has devoured what I believe is the real proposition.
              I don't think there is any other movement that embraces decentralization like Ethereum does (including other cryptos).
Do you want to decentralize? This is your place.
              Optimize for personal growth. Avoid comfort. Humility, antifragiilty, sustainability, self sufficiency,  transparency.
              The dilution of the nation-states.
A world were the benefits go to who creates value not who controls the channels.
A world not driven by economical incentives but by global needs.
              Short term: Noise. Value of the Ethereum project perceived as the value of the currency.
Long term: The people that first got into Etherum , were some of the best minds, very ideologically driven. Big percentage of these people are now economically independent. The incentive to keep working hard is therefore much smaller.
The people joining now is much more driven by the currency aspect of it.
Is the cool innovation gone?
Other cryptos may become more innovative and may end up winning the long run?
              I don't believe I have a purpose. I do have a monkey mind that wants to keep me alive.  This monkey mind is happy when it evolves and when it sees other's happy.
Let's learn how the systems that drive our world work. Understand where they fail. Let's make better ones.
Exploring. Learning. Building.
              
              Xavi Vives

            
              2018/05/26 7:18:38 AM GMT+7
              Ryan Ford, Phillip Defranco, and my dad. 
              Ethtrader, coinbase, APEX Movement 
              Decentralized blockchain, Fairness, ease of use. 
              The technology and the investment. I’m still here for both watching the developments. 
              Being able to share it with others, long talks, fun times, world view changing
              Sometimes the community goes too crazy 
              The amount of coins 
              No
              Someone who is passionate, knowledgeable, and good at sharing those qualities with others. 
              Science, peace 
              A good one
              Scaling 
              Parkour. It’s my passion and community

            
              2018/05/26 10:44:31 AM GMT+7
              Gavin Wood, Andreas, Vlad Zamfir
              Liquid democracy, digitalization of tangible property
              Freedom, decentralization
              Decentralization, a much fairer world
              TheDAO fork and returning the stolen funds to the proper owners.
              Maybe we can focus on more University partnerships.
              Some people are only here for the money. I am here because Ethereum will make the world a better place.
              We need to support the developers more by helping with testing.
              Humble and fully supportive of decentralization.
              Freedom. Honesty. Justice.
              A world where the system is fair for all.
              Not really.
              Ethereum ;)

            
              2018/05/26 5:27:04 PM GMT+7
              I prefer not to have leaders as all.
              
              Censorship resistance, Privacy. Both at completely missing.
              The fresh spirit. I lost confidence in Ethereum with the hard fork and the Slockit TheDAO disaster. That most important Ethereum devs have been part of that flawed project was a very bad sign to me about the state of that community. 
              
              Hard fork, TheDAO. Another very bad experience was the poor software quality of Mist. When I converted my private keys it rejected my password. Got shocked. Was a stupid carriage return bug which was reported since weeks but not fixed. Pretty bad impression for the QA of the software.
              That superficial "positive" thinking mentality. Prefer hard facts and brutal honesty as it is more usual in Bitcoin.
              Hard fork, TheDAO, After that I lost interest so not followed much more recent failures like the Parity MS issue, etc.
              Critical feedback to what happens
              
              
              I think it will survive only because it has such a huge community. Same as MS survived bc they have such a huge customer base. Not very positive.

            
              2018/05/26 6:04:07 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir for being open, rational and analytics. Jarrad Hope for being passionate and unselfish building useful tools for the community.
              Net neutrality, Wikileaks, FSF
              Welcoming, transparent and open. Censorship resistance.
              The idea of smart contracts attracted me. The welcoming community got me to stay.
              Meeting friendly people at conferences.
              
              
              Launching scaling solutions.
              
              
              
              A fear of scaling solutions not being released ;)

            
              2018/05/26 6:43:20 PM GMT+7
              Martin Koeppelmann, Karl Floerch, Joseph Lubin (they all really understand well and care)
              I care less about the companies or affiliations, but about some really great people!
              Trust, reliability but practical to achieve a societal change.
              Ethereum allows us to rebuild the systems of our world. It hasn't changed, and I'm still here because I want to make this change happen.
              Not really one specific moment (yet), it's an exciting time since the beginning. DevCon 1 was an very important moment for the community. Vitalik on stage on the final keynote... 
              
              It gets more political; I'm proud of the level of sharing, but recently have seen first movement towards 'to invented here' and some arrogance - I hope this is not becoming the norm.
              I assume we could have communicate the DOA hard fork better, but I think we learnt a lot. I'm worried about BIP999 and implications into the trust of Ethereum.
              Intensions to improve the world, and not driven by greed. 
              Honesty, Openness, Fairness, Integrity,...
              I want to see a future, which empowers individuals to have true choice - what to consume, what to work, who to interact with, access to services and good in a more equal way.
              Split the community with very controversial decisions (e.g. BIP999) - we had a head start, but I want this community to shape the future. It's important to make progress to stay ahead of competition which has very different objectives... 
              Doing something good with positive impact to many people.
              Thanks for driving this - curious to see the results
              Rouven

            
              2018/05/26 6:45:19 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - very publicly sets out ideals with which I identify
Nick Johnson - very good at expressing complex ideas in a straightforward way, takes time to do so
Makoto Inoue - welcoming to new people and proactively creating opportunities for them to learn
              W3 foundation
The open source movement
              Spreading the benefits of technology
Sharing knowledge
Open community
The power of the ideas behind Ethereum is enormous. If the implementation delivers on those ideas, the result will be technology with the potential to empower people who are currently powerless. But this won't happen on its own. Indeed there's a real risk that early adopters who have benefited enormously financially could form a self-serving plutocracy unless the community keeps at its heart the ideal of sharing this technology, and the knowledge needed to harness it.
              As a technophile, I see in Ethereum a future which empowers people. It would be however disingenuous not to admit that my small contribution to the Ethereum crowdsale, which has become quite valuable, has kept me more emotionally invested.
The community of people who I admire is another big draw.
              Probably a recent talk I went to by Viktor Tron. I was once again blown away by the scope of what may be possible, and got a real buzz.
              The online community is beset by trolls who I feel manage to have an outsized impact on the community. We need tools that can represent stakeholders better than whoever posts most frequently on Reddit.
              As above, trolls.
              The 'move fast and break things' mentality seems to have gone, and it feels as though progress on the core protocol is stalling (but admittedly I am not close to the action so this is probably a warped perception).
              Someone actively who shares their expertise and time to educate new members.
              What a question. Trying to understand the world around me and making it better for those less fortunate. Fairness.
              An open source one where knowledge is pooled and individuals are empowered.
              My fear is that the permissionless environment of Ethereum will ultimately concentrate power in the hands of a tiny elite, despite all its promise.
              Relationships, discovery

            
              2018/05/26 6:49:49 PM GMT+7
              Jordi Baylina - He is constantly working on improving our protocol, cares for the community and is a very good and kind person
Patrick McCorry - His research on payment channels is really helpful to all the people working on the field
Martin Swende (https://twitter.com/mhswende) -  His knowledge on security analysis and contributions to ethereum protocol testing can only be rivaled by his capacity for hard work. I respect Martin a lot.
Want to add a 4th. Peter Szilagyi(https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi) - Without him  geth would no longer be used. Really admire his hard work on the go ethereum client.
              
              Ethereum should embody the values of freedom of expression, financial freedom and inclusion. The why is a hard question to answer. That's what I always thought Ethereum stood for.
              I was originally attracted to Ethereum due to its hard technical problems and the revolution it promised to bring to the way we perform financial transactions. I am still here because we are not done and still got work to do.
              Going to Devcon2 right after the DAO Hack and the whitehat actions aftermath. Because I met the community of people for whom I went through a summer of hell and they were all so nice and thankfull, and not even a single person was rude or hostile.
              Yes. Communications between internal projects of the foundation (while I was working for the foundation internal comms was non-existent) and more lately between projects that solve similar problems. It seems to me that there are multiple teams working on similar projects and there is virtually no exchange of ideas between them.
              Price talk
              We are failing at scaling fast enough. With Raiden we hope to help there, but all other scaling projects have to pick up the pace. We must all innovate in the scaling aspect. Also we fail at onboarding and UX.
              Anyone that does not enjoy trolling and/or harassing other fellow netizens
              Set high goals and strive to get closer to them one way or another every single day. Don't forget the people around you, friends and family are important.
              That's a rather broad question. So I will answer with a broad answer. I envision a non-dystopian future. So a Star Trek future, instead of a Blade Runner one.
              Money and power corrupts, and I fear that many people in Ethereum are in it for the money and not aligned with the general technical goals of the community.
              Building things that will make a difference
              Disclaimer: The questions were rather broad, and I just answered with the first thing that came to my mind. This is just my personal opinion and not that of my employer.
              Lefteris Karapetsas

            
              2018/05/26 7:34:44 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, Jutta Steiner, Afri Schoedon
Nick seems very authentic and open to criticism. Furthermore he's a real professional. I've asked him lots of questions on gitter and he's always responding with a perfect answer. 
Jutta seems to have a great vision of technology that can empower people and create a real decentralized web.
Afri is an incredibly nice bloke who's also very open to criticism. He's also a real professional. 
              Microsoft/ Apple: It will bring great technology to the masses.
Environmental movement: The plan to switch to PoS made that clear from the beginning.
Atheism - sort of: People don't have to believe something because someone else told them it's true. They can easily verify the truth or integrity of data themselves. 
              Does:
Liberty: No one is barred from using the network.
Transparent processes: The EIP process and general development is very transparent.
Should:
True decentralization: Right now it seems that a few big players own the platform. There's Joe Lubin with Consensys and Vitalik who seems to have a major say on development. Furthermore, since Vitalik and a few other players own a lot of ETH, centralization with PoS seems like a great risk. (I have no idea how to solve that problem though.)
              I got into bitcoin in late 2011. But other than to use it to buy drugs online it didn't make much sense to me. Also the community was kind of toxic from the beginning and it only got worse over time. 
When I stumbled across ethereum in 2014 I immediately realized that programmable money has great potential and many use-cases.
I am still here because the community is incredibly welcoming and I am currently launching my first startup.
              When I wrote my first Smart Contract and deployed it on the mainnet. I hadn't tested it before so it didn't work as I expected but there it was: A truly decentralized application anyone in the world could use. I was blown away. 
              It frustrates me that a majority of the community doesn't seem to support bugfixes. Especially people who joined in late 2017 seem to be against bug fixes of major issues (like the Parity hack).
The toxic reaction of many people on reddit to these proposals surprised me as well. There wasn't even any real discussion as there was in the past. Just lots of ignorance and schadenfreude. 
              - Reddit became partly toxic
- that people **still** fall easily for scams
- that a few big players (Consensys, PolyCapital, Coinbase) seem to own the market
- the huge sums of money some startups raise and then spend on other things 
              At the moment we're failing at user experience. It's hard for new users to get into the space and most dapps are still very difficult to use. 
              Pure interest and voicing their opinion without trolling or being toxic is sufficient. 
              Basic democratic principles like liberty and equality.
I alsl try not to be ignorant and try to inform myself on topics before I voice my opinion.
Being nice to people has generally helped me out a lot in life as well. 
              I'd love to see a world that profits more people than just the top.
              If the space becomes too dominated by big players there won't be much innovation in the long term. 
              That's a tough question I don't have an answer to.

            
              2018/05/26 8:41:06 PM GMT+7
              Karl Floersch. His kindness & passion is infectious. His desire to educate others in patient & understanding ways inspires me to do the same.
Joe Lubin. Although he can sometimes be seen as an overpowering force in the industry, I've always admired his (almost stoic) restraint. He works extremely hard behind many scenes, but is never first to take credit, always putting others on the pedestal, even when it is not warranted. It's a constant reminder that we are all in this together.
Rhys Lindmark. Kind & understanding. Behind his friendly facade, he is relentlessly working on making sure we can move towards a new economic world of abundance.
              Internet Archive.
EFF.
Bitcoin community.
              Inclusivity, Openness, Default to Transparency, Diversity.
This is a technology that is & will hold the world's intent in it. This is a technology that whole world needs to use. It is by nature less agnostic than something like HTTP or TCP/IP, because it captures a shared history within it. Thus, we should strive to make sure that that shared history is one all of humanity wants to tell in the future.
              I was a developer trying to make Bitcoin do interesting things, wanting to experiment with how we can create more value for the many. Bumping into a hostile programming environment (technically & sometimes socially), made me extremely excited when Ethereum was announced: a blockchain that focused on developers and by extension of that -> inclusion.
I had ideas about the way the world was going to change, and it's not there yet. I'm still here because we aren't done yet. I want to see many more people be able to support their lifestyles, wherever they are in the world, by using blockchain technology to reduce the barriers for them to do so.
              Strangely... Back in late 2014/early 2015 when I interviewed to be a part of ConsenSys. Back then it was just Joe Lubin & Ashley Taylor in the company. I was about to give up working in the space after I tried to build a bunch of things in the cryptocurrency space for a year. My funds were running out. Joe telling me that he read my blog posts and that he wants to build all of it, made me realise that I am not alone in seeing this new world come to fruition. Maybe we are still crazy, but at least I didn't feel so alone anymore. I was given the opportunity of a lifetime.
              I've always felt that the Ethereum Foundation could've fostered a more radical approach: radical transparency & more radical openness.
Additionally, I'm worried that those pushing for governance over a blockchain will become governors. In other words, we might have rulers arrive simply because we left a metaphorical backdoor open for them. It's why I feel that although talks about governance is relevant, we should be very, very wary that it speaks for all users of the system or will ever at all. Those who wish to have governance should not expect that *any* governance is necessarily necessary.
              Sometimes I feel we keep having the same conversations without it ending somewhere meaningful.
I personally get tired of too many conferences, but that's a personal issue.
              I find it a slightly hard pill to swallow that the industry grew in value so quickly without it being in the right hands yet. 
It might be okay if we end up with a new oligarchy if we ALSO have a more empowered long-tail, but I feel that it's a tenuous situation. Will the world still hold the same opportunities then? We are failing if we aren't self-aware about this problem.
              Kindness, patience, inclusivity & healthy dose of disregard of the rules. The willingness to help new people wanting to learn and enable their world.
              Kindness, patience, inclusivity & a healthy dose of disregard of the rules. ;)
I value my integrity a lot: perhaps sometimes to my own detriment.
              I hope to see a future where many people are empowered to do what they want to do with their lives: even in the extreme, to be so empowered to choose to do nothing with their lives.
              I fear that society will automate faster than we can invent new economic models for it. Societal instability will result. It's relevant to Ethereum, because Ethereum is a promise to make sure we weather through this change without too much turmoil.
              Being creative & being able to spend meaningful time with people I care about: friends, family, lovers. Most of what we do I feel is so that we can get back to that space of uncomplicated niceness & goodness.
Being able to work on things that enable more people to do the above.
              
              Simon de la Rouviere

            
              2018/05/26 10:12:04 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, Vlad Zamfir, Griff Green
              Decentralization, Open Source, Effective Altruism
              Sovereignty and Cooperation
              I feel like decentralization is a tool to fix broken institutions by providing resilient alternatives, I'm still here because Ethereum (and its community) seem most likely to accomplish that goal. 
              After joining the community last year and interacting with people exclusively on slack, github, and twitter, going to devcon3 and running into people that I didnt even realize I had met before online, but feeling like we had been friends for years. 
              I'm frustrated by the tendency for projects both in the wider blockchain space and within the Ethereum space to create tribes and development silos. We are all working towards the same vision/goal, more things should be done as collaborations, more things should be shared openly, and we should not hesitate to adopt the ideas, improve on them, and share them in the spirit of open source. We need to transcend petty competition, and work together to fight moloch. 
              Scammers, ICO promoters, and the serial exploitation of unsophisticated retail investors (and subsequent regulatory attention that comes with that). 
              We are failing to communicate the value of meaningful decentralization. 
              So many things are broken in the ecosystem, we are not production ready. A good community member recognizes that there are problems and takes it upon themselves to do what they can to help make improvements. It doesn't matter if your a developer or even technical, coming to the table with a contributors mindset is what makes it possible to build something that will disrupt current power structures. See https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/
              I consider myself a selfish altruist, which means I look for things to do that allow me to both do good while doing well. We live in a positive sum world, and if you are conscious about where you spend your time you can create value for the world and for yourself at the same time. 
              I expect that we are heading to either utopia or dystopia, where we live in a world of abundance and equal opportunity, or one where that abundance is captured by a wealthy elite and the rest of the population is strictly controlled. I'm doing everything I can to nudge things in the direction of utopia. 
              Ethereum is young and promising, but far from complete. I believe that in the long term optimizing for true decentralization will ultimately be the most valuable and disruptive technological force, but in the short term centralization tradeoffs may capture investor mindshare. So many people in community are true believers and hold a vast majority of their wealth in ETH, I worry that markets are fickle the real builders haven't hedged enough to be able to continue to work on this stuff in order to see it through to the point that it can truly disrupt things. 
              
              
              lkngtn

            
              2018/05/26 10:28:41 PM GMT+7
              Seriously? Admire? Nobody. This is not a cult.
              None. It's a protocol. It should be neutral
              None. Again it's a protocol and it should be neutral
              Uncensorable turing complete network. I still hope all of this bullshit stop. But probably won't happend unfortunatly
              wtf?
              The DAO hardfork. That was a big mistake and we are still paying the price today with all the parity drama.
              Exactly this kind of survey. and the cult of personality
              Remain neutral on a bunch of topic.
              Anyone.
              Nodes issues, scalling issues, the move toward PoS, rent fees..
              Clearly not the same you do. 
              
              
              This is not middle school, the community need to get their act together and stop focusing on this kind of bullshit when there are way more pressent issues at hand, seriously.

            
              2018/05/26 10:50:09 PM GMT+7
              Will Warren from 0x Project. He's a prototypical #buidler. He's seen the power of Ethereum, found a place of leverage within it, and has relentlessly executed towards that goal (without being distracted by events, money, etc.). Humble, low ego, curious.
Robbie Bent from Truebit. Again, super high "execution quality", but is especially good at linking communities, thinking from an abundant mindset, finding win-wins, etc. He's a true "community guy". Just wants to connect folks for a better future. Robbie is a humble and reflective helper. Quirky too :)
Linda Xie from Scalar Capital. Although Linda has a bunch of power, the primary way she exercises it is through: a) Funding deep infrastructure projects, and more importantly b) Constantly helping educate beginners about the space. She's also constantly highlighting other "less well known" folks who are doing great work. Linda empowers people.
              1. The #Open community (Mozilla, Wikimedia, Creative Commons). We both value open-source, open access (permissionlessness), and empowering the crowd.
2. Burning Man. We both value creativity, expressing your authentic self (and the reverse—no judgment), and imaging a new world.
3. Effective Altruism. We both value rigorous assessments of how to positively impact society. 
              VERY difficult question. 
1. For "should", I tried to answer this question for #ETHCommons here (see the section titled "VALUES of the Ethereum Commons Co-op"): https://medium.com/@RhysLindmark/co-evolving-the-phase-shift-to-cryptocapitalism-by-founding-the-ethereum-commons-co-op-f4771e5f0c83
I think that section is worth reading, but the tl;dr is that I think there are two "root" values: Decentralization and Transparency.
2. For "does", I think Ethereum currently has the values: quirkiness/creativity, humility, curiosity.
I'm very tempted to have those values be part of the "ETH package", but I don't know if they should be mandated.
              The ability for Ethereum to: decentralize power and create an antifragile system. AND the group of smart, well-intentioned people who are working towards that future.
I'm still here because that has continued to be true.
              
              1. Before companies were aggressively self-taxing to fund infrastructure (EF Grants, ECF, etc.), I was frustrated by how little funding was being pushed towards infrastructure.
2. Maybe something connected to ICOs? How could we have "self-regulated" them better? When we release a powerful new technology/standard, can we do a pre-mortem on it to make sure it impact society well?
              When we constantly hypothesize about systems, rather than thinking about people. e.g. You're at a meetup. 30min of beers/pizza. 90min of talks. Then everyone goes to a bar afterwards and talks about the "awesome new future" we're building. We talk talk talk about it late into the night. It's fascinating and I love it. But we should be more aware that Ethereum is a mind virus, and we should leave room for other conversations. (Ask yourself "what % of time has each person spent talking? About what topic?")
              I see this as similar to the "frustration" question from above. We should co-evolve more with various aligned communities like #Open, Effective Altruism, Coops, etc.
We're moderately failing at gender diversity.
The thing we're most failing at, BY FAR, is the "decentralization of power" side. The top 100 accounts hold 35% of supply (https://arewedecentralizedyet.com/). We are becoming myopic around decentralization through *technological* means, and not thinking nearly enough about decentralization through *mindset*. And even if we have that mindset, we're not applying it to our actions. We're living it the past mindset. We have too many rich crypto whales, and not nearly enough people giving back. Pineapple Fund should be the rule, not the exception.
              - Desire to positively impact the world
- Curiosity
- Humility
- No greed (selfless, no ego, etc.)
              Humility, curiosity, transparency, intentionality. 
              In the face of massive converging exponential technological change, we need to create an abundant antifragile infinite game. 
Yep, I'm aware that's a high level description. Ethereum is a key piece of that future because it is a new "Organizational Technology" that makes trust more abundant and decentralized power (which is necessarily for fragility).
              1. We "move too slowly" on governance and scaling.
2. We don't "spread our vision" quickly enough. (i.e. We were all disappointed with Consensus 2018. We need to show new members the Ethereum vision and connect with those existing folks to bring them closer to our worldview.)
              Two things: 
1. Meaningful human connection
2. Empowering others to have meaningful human connection. i.e. Trying to maximize how long humanity "stays around" (an infinite game of antifragility...the x axis of time) + maximizing happiness while we're around (releasing folks from a scarcity mindset, moving them up Maslow's hierarchy...the y-axis of happiness).
              THANK YOU for spearheading this Jarrad. Let me know if I can help going forwards!
              Rhys Lindmark

            
              2018/05/26 11:03:16 PM GMT+7
              Joe libin charlie sheen, Dr moe levin
              Rsk ambassadors
              Community, caddis that's what's it about
              Smart Contracts
              My first escrow contract on the #etherum t test network
              Do a hack
              Leadership
              No
              Active
              Hard work
              Consensus driven
              Adaption
              Family
              Fasinating curriculum
              Ledger academy

            
              2018/05/26 11:11:49 PM GMT+7
              Bob Summerwill - for being not greedy and working to make bridges between different crypto-projects.
Taylor Monahan - for being passionate about protecting new users against loosing their money (by teaching them good security practices)
Lots of really nice people in the Eth-community. What they have in common: see the value-section below.
              Linux foundation. Open source software development. 
              Openness. Friendliness. Collaboration. Also towards (partially) competing projects. 
              The awesome new technology with potential to change the world!
              Investing in the DAO was my first experience of using smart contracts. The first weeks of the DAO I learned a lot about Ethereum. (The DAO gave me both the best and the worst memory related to Ethereum...)
              Some prominent members of the Ethereum community have shown a lot of un-necessary spite/shadenfreude against other crypto projects, particularly Iota and EOS. Nobody profits from that sort of behavior. 
              Until recently there were too few people working on the core Ethereum tech (scaling, POS) compared to dApps. Seems to have improved lately, however.
              I fear that Casper and sharding will come too late.
              One that works tirelessly both when prices increases and decreases (most Eth-heads do).
              Integrity wins in the long run. Treat people the way I want to be treated.
              There are two outcomes: hell/extermination and heaven-on-earth. I think AI-tech will lead us to one of those places.
              No
              
              
              Martin Storm Larsen (@mrstormlars)

            
              2018/05/26 11:12:52 PM GMT+7
              Alex Van De Sande, Emin Gun Sirer, Vlad Zamfir, Isabella Rebel aka Rabbyte
Vlad is as critical to Eth as Vitalik, but they still disagree intellectually, and have a diversity of opinion.
Emin is levelheaded, rational and immune to bullshit.
Isabella/Alex differ from the standard crypto-anarchist/crypto-libertarian belief system that is practically standard with bitcoin, and they reflect a diversity I don't often see in cryptocurrency/blockchain
              Polkadot Foundation, The UN, Estonian Government
              Anti-censorship, decentralization, trustlessness
These are fundamental properties of Ethereum, and so far in terms of community consensus there doesn't seem to be disagreement on these.
              Turing completeness on a decentralized platform, where code isn't tied to a specific machine in the world, the REAL cloud computer.
              Attending a meetup in Singapore with Vitalik presenting, and seeing a loooot of people in attendance
              discourse over governance is still tense, fragmented and frequently emotional.
              critics who seem more interested in insults or rhetorical slamdunks rather than  (or in addition to) genuine rational criticism. e.g. Preston Byrne, Deviatefish (reddit)
              governance discussions. the post-parity hack discussions were kind of a mess. Everyone seemed to be talking over each other, rather than at each other. No one seemed to understand each other's perspectives.
              engaged, motivated. educated on technical matters (at least till a conceptual level). mature (very important)
              logic as a decision making framework, with emotions and values being guiding principles. the belief that social frameworks are needed to bring the good out in humans, and to hold back the bad in humans.
              individual liberties are not suppressed (with rare exceptions).
the worst excesses of capitalism regulated to avoid inequality, corruption, ecological harm, exploitation, etc.
Universal basic income
universal healthcare
              scalability issues. the failure to convince the wider public the importance of a decentralized platform (despite the evidence being very obvious!), simply because libertarian politics and bitcoin politics have so poisoned blockchain's popular image.
              making art, doing good. human progress (with equality in said progress)
              
              karaidon (reddit)

            
              2018/05/27 12:50:39 AM GMT+7
              Rune (maker dev - long term thinking and building), jtnicol (ethtrader mod - welcoming friendly non elitist), James ray (research focus and meditation)
              Open source, libertarianism, privacy , transhumanism
              Ethereum is building powerful shared infrastructure which will have huge political and social implications. In designing and governing this infrastructure we should value social good and ensure we think through the implications for society. We should act with humility,  care, awareness of minority rights, and awareness that the technology will be used for good and ill purposes that we cannot predict. We should value expertise and technical merit adopting the best ideas but we should also value diversity of opinion and ethics. While many in the community are libertarian we should not build politics into the system or impose our politics on others. We do not set out to ‘smash the state’ , destroy the banks, or get rich, but rather to improve the world. We should be inclusive, and work with others rather than be tribal or maximalist, however we should also make Ethereum the best network and ecosystem we can. There is nothing wrong with competing to be the best platform.
              Proof of stake (bitcoin is an environmental problem), Ambition (ethereum has great potential).
               
              Documentation is bad and the whole dev experience is confusing. Also experience of a user downloading a client for the first time is bad (slow sync and “now what” need some kid of dapp store with Dapps to try)
              Trolling and airing private personal disagreements on social media by people I otherwise respect 
              Too slow to Launch Swarm. Need Contract pays (to compete with EOS users paying for gas is too much friction), Need official Messaging network layer so that whole web 3 vision delivered 
              Rational, Polite, Visionary.
              Stoicism, Rationality, Doubt 
              Too little time and space to elaborate here.
              Black mirror nosedive but decentralised. Some other network with worse values wins. Censorship proof terrorism, evil markets, child porn.
              Ideas, Family, Being useful.

            
              2018/05/27 12:52:18 AM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson
Tech / Quality of Discussion
Taylor Monahan
Boundless Energy
Gavin Wood
Building on regardless
              Giveth
EthSocialImpact
EntEthAlliance
              We are building a platform not another Bitcoin. We can make different choices and learn from accidents and mistakes.
We can fix mistakes as long as the impact can be properly evaluated and as long as community opinion is consulted.
Social change with a ❤
              Came in for the tech. Stayed for the tech and the amazing caring community.
              Helping others learn, helping protect newcomers from scams.
Getting onboard a project that helps people (HelloGold)
              Not so far. (Apart from ether crashing when I was about to cash out to buy a house 😂)
              Twitter scams.
              Nope.
              Somebody who wants to make a positive contribution to the tech, ethereum community, or world at large using ethereum.
              Be kind and condiderate where possible. Help others. Teach.
              Asimov's kind of vision.
              
              Community, family look after those who appreciate you.
tech - because.
Riding my Harley - time to be inside your head.
              
              Dave Appleton.

            
              2018/05/27 12:55:03 AM GMT+7
              While Vitalik clearly is impressive, I'm not sure he's actually a role model. While I believe in his integrity, his leadership skills lack maturity. 
Lane has made strong contributions recently. So has Hudson. Nick is putting a lot of time an effort into communicating in a constructive way with the "community"
              
              
              It's technical capabilities to provide a technological solution to social problems
              
              Lack of leadership within the Ethereum foundation – although it's just one entity among others. Lack of coordination to come up with sustainable models for financing its infrastructure. The growing level of greed an entrenchment. 
              Same as a above. 
              Who is we?
              What makes a good citizen?

            
              2018/05/27 12:58:39 AM GMT+7
              Karl Floersch, Hudson Jameson, Joseph Lubin. 
              
              Creating a diverse, decentralized ecosystem that empowers the individual.
              Ethereum was the next logical step after bitcoin in creating a decentralized ecosystem. I believe this is just the beginning and ethereum will continue to grow and help foster new ideas.

            
              2018/05/27 1:02:02 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - Constant transparent criticism
Aragon team - decentralising themselves
Nick Johnson - doing crucial work in the background
              Gaming clans
Cooperatives
              Openness
Limitless experimentation
Collaboration
              I followed where the smartest developers are building stuff. They are still building on Ethereum.
              Seeing demos at EDCON in Paris. First time the power really hit me.
              UI/UX is still a problem. 
              Tribal wars between coins. We're all on the same side.
              Distributing wealth more widely to people contributing work to the community.
              Humble technical talent
              Constant learning
Follow curiosity
Empower others
              A human centric future, removing power from organisations
              Even if you deliver on all the things you set-out to do, the macro setting might still keep success away.
              Learning & happiness. 
              Really appreciate the work you're doing here - looking forward to the outcome!

            
              2018/05/27 1:48:55 AM GMT+7
              Ryan Selkis for having strong morals (all of which I agree with) and sticking with them.
Isabella Rebel (rabbyte), for similar reasons; she had no problem calling out nonsense when she sees it. Can be confrontational and aggressive at times, but never in a "wrong" way.
The Aragon Fam for having some of the original philosophical drive for decentralization; it shows in their work and their product.
The Zeppelin Crew are some of the most wholesome people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. Anything and everything they do is done with care and consideration for the community.
Arachnid on GitHub (is that Nick?) for all of the nonsense he puts up with on those GitHub issues; really speaks to how attached to the movement he is.
Cryptograffiti and the crypto art people make a lot of fun things.
Afri Schoedon for helping me with parity devops problems on Twitter and also being a level headed person.
Simon de la Rouvie for being a wholesome person across the board.
Elena Nadolinski because she's one of the short list of names building real things with non-fungible tokens, nonstop, and demoing at hackathons all the time. 
              DSA send to be related but I only recently learned about them. The parts about redistribution of wealth seem to be shared, at least.
Honestly I don't really attach a specific ideology by name. But there are obviously vibes that I associate to Ethereum, primarily along the "self-sovereignty" line; the relegation of government to a utility provider, personal autonomy, default privacy, that sort of thing. Maybe there's an ideology for that?
              
              1. Came to learn about Bitcoin because of the price
2. Finally read that whitepaper
3. Interested in the tech, but thought that payments was a subset of a larger thing you could do
4. Whoops, Ethereum already exists, neat
5. I like the tech, so that's what pulled me in deeper
6. Eventually discovered that I identify with a lot of the ideology I mentioned above (self-sovereignty, namely) and that's why I stick around and build things
              Building and releasing steak.network was pretty fun.
Chatting with Simon in Cape Town was pretty fun.
Being on a panel at a conference for the first time was pretty fun.
Getting to go to Buenos Aires and chill with the Zeppelin crew for a month was amazing.
EthDenver was pretty fun. And we got to meet the floobots so that's dope.
Being invited to Japan to accept the Ethereum Community Fund grant was an excellent time.
Meeting the people at IDEO has been great.
              Everyone had probably already mentioned the obvious things like Solidity, etc.
              There are a lot of people I don't agree with (from a technical perspective or otherwise) and that obviously conflicts with the "this is an open process" thing that I like so much. It gets annoying to deal with.
I manage a few communities, and responding to the noobs is incredibly tiring. Especially the ones that come in with some swagger like "I've programmed before, this is going to be a piece of cake" and then follow up with bad or otherwise terrible questions that indicate they have no idea what's happening and definitely haven't read the whitepaper.
              
              
              
              
              Ethereum has a two year head start on community, but a bunch of fundamentally bad dev/user experiences; I could see another chain coming along with a better DX and siphoning developers away. And two years isn't a ton if we think power laws are going to happen. Must innovate to stay on top, etc.
              Wew, didn't know we were getting existential today. For now, I'm glad to be part of the forefront of a movement that I think will make the world better. I'm uniquely (relative to most people in the world) equipped with the ideas and abilities to help make it happen, so it seems obvious that I should be working on it. Not in a "ugh, gotta work on this" way, but in a "I understand that this might be a big part of what I want to do with my life" sorry of thing
But I haven't thought too much about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
              
              Matt Condon

            
              2018/05/27 2:03:32 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir: research-focused, anti-hype
Tayvano: user-focused, no bullshit, vocal

              Secure-Scuttlebutt/patchwork
beaker browser/dat

              Transparency
Science/debate over emotion/ego
Governmental experimentation
              Mad science P2P / new territory
Debt owed to users / unnachieved ecosystem goals
              Meeting online friends in person at DevCons and people thanking me for what I work on
              I still think the Dao undoing was a mistake, we should have had to deal with the consequences
              Web3.js and geth rpc having little concern for backwards compatibility or semver. Rpc lacking standards.
              Failing to be universal.
We should have been able to eat zcash's functionality by now. Problem is that evm is not a compiler target, so hand rolling complex systems in a new language is hard.
State of P2P network is also a concern, hard to find peers and stay in sync. Geth team seems really closed to outside world, or at least hard to reach out to.
Erc20 should have had a better reference implementation that could be deployed as is and controlled by an external custom contract.
Processing a Transaction should have been evaling the txdata as evm, allowing for more flexible txs like batch and conditional

              Values open source + community + healthy debate culture
              Ship it, experiment
              Fully automated space communism
              Soon to be obsolete compared to some upcoming wasm-vm gen3 blockchains?
              Making things people enjoy

            
              2018/05/27 2:24:14 AM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson (helpfulness to anyone, deep expert knowledge), Simon de la Rouviere (deep thought, sharing his insights), Taylor Monahan (strongly working towards bringing this to the masses despite it being a frustrating battle), Ameen Soleimani (touching on real moloch issues and working to solve them), Evan Van Ness (manages to keep the rest of us sane by summarizing what has happened in the maelstroem of Ethereum during last week),
              N/A
              Being the best damn computational court around a-la https://media.consensys.net/interplanetary-linked-computing-separating-merkle-computing-from-blockchain-computational-courts-1ade201ecf8a?gi=720fb23882a0 - and work hard towards bringing this technology to the masses.
              The lovely community, being helpful, sharing and welcoming for anybody.
              Being able to solve a solidity assembly problem after several days of frustrating debugging by a simple question to a helpful person on gitter who could really have offered that service at several hundred EUR an hour. It confirmed to me that  Ethereum wins because of the developer offering and community spirit.
              We should have introduced a design pattern for Kleros style arbitration & Plasma style exit dispute much earlier to have prevented the need for hard forks.
              Lack of a proper ethereum.org website and no general foundation-oriented approach towards bringing this to the masses, despite having a big wallet. 
              /r/ethereum is a total shitshow for any newcomers - requiring post karma to even post comments kills anybody who wants to participate who's not a longer time redditor
              Helpful, sharing, collaborative, open source
              N/A
              See "The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age" and "The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks". Roughly covers it. Except crazier.
              What happens if our boot nodes for the P2P networks surrounding our technologies get filtered out by a government? What if they shut the internet, Cameroon-style, for several months?
              Doing things that leave a mark on the world. Because if I'm not remembered by anybody, it'll be like I haven't existed.
              
              Carsten Munk (@stskeeps)

            
              2018/05/27 2:49:00 AM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, emin gün sirer, Dan finlay
              Giveth, Consensys, omisego
              Don't know 
              I am initially attracted by the programming capability, still stays due to community 
              When I first used my smart contract for real during devcon2 
              Slow network
              lots of position talks 
              Too much speculation
              Helping each other
              Be happy 
              Happy life 
              Gas price too high to be unusable even with scaling solutions like payment channel or plasma 
              I want to have build something everybody uses 
              
              Makoto

            
              2018/05/27 5:32:49 AM GMT+7
              Esteban Ordano, Iuri Matias. Both of them are great developers and Steban is looking into the future. Evan Van Ness because of all the reading he does to sort things out.
              
              
              1) The technology. 2) It is very interesting and actively developed. First the code and now apps.
              Going to devcon and seeing some of the devs I've seen in Twitter.
              More events in latam.
              
              
              
              Be honest. Make friends.
              Sometimes it's dark and sad.
              Blockchain size. Censorship.
              Somewhere I read that the question doesn't make sense. It only makes sense because I'm alive.

            
              2018/05/27 5:55:13 AM GMT+7
              Lane Rettig, Griff Green, Jamie Hudson, Andreas MA, BokkyPoobah.  Keep the decentralisation theme on track. 
              ECF, Colony, Aragon, Giveth,  Medicin Sans Frontieres, Fred Hollows Foundation,
              Decentralisation and DAO for individuals to embody "rights beyond those that are laid down (Professor Dworkin)".  Take a leaf out from legal jurisprudence for deeper understanding of the philosophy of legal, political and moral rights,  When you find something so important in your life then you will fight for that right. https://medium.com/@dalim927/good-governance-cfc23f855cf5
              Ethereum as a vehicle to be able to use and give back to the community.  
              Contemporaneus idealogy of giving and sharing to the community.
              Ethereum is evolving and the followers will only take advantage of it if it has a clear roadmap.  Plan for the next 25 years  Patience is a virtue.
              None.  Do not deal with the social issues like trolling other cryptos.  Be proud that Ethereum is top in class.
              Ethereum needs good governance.
              Dedication and endurance.
              It is important to understand that you have a cause in life.  When the cause is challenged,  there is no need to flee or fight.  Only when you find that cause is  an important path in your life, you will fight for it.  Then only,  you will remember why you started here.
              Decentalised future where one has the ability to ensure their legal, political and moral rights way beyond what is being laid.
              Place a seed of Ethereum geth in space where it cannot be destroyed.
              Have a voice and be able to change things to deliver a better good for the community.
              I believe a philosophy of good governance for Ethereum should enshrine how, why and what we should govern.  Discussions should be held at this higher level before navigating into the nitty gritty stuff.
              Attendee (dalim927) at 1st The Philosophy of Ethereum Governance. 91 Oxford St Toronto, ON meetup

            
              2018/05/27 5:55:53 AM GMT+7
              Andrew Miller,  Emin Gün Sirer, Andy Milenius. I admire their intellectual honesty and chops.
              Not loosely - Ethereum Foundation. More loosely - Plasma and TrueBit. 
              Decentralization of power. To me Ethereum combines a hacker's playfulness with a mathematician's discipline and I want that bundle of potent creativity  targeted towards making mechanism design accessible and influenceable.  
              How could the idea of a global computer biased towards consensus-based algorithm not be attractive?
              DevCon3... and building a working Ethereum wallet https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/using-vault-to-build-an-ethereum-wallet
              Documentation and example code is always out of date or flawed.
              The preciousness is a bit tedious.
              The community could do a better job at building simple useful utilities for normal enterprises.
              A kind, curious and competent engineer.
              Kindness, tolerance and a reverence for genius.
              Hopefully one that puts Earth before Mars; and one that extricates us from our overwhelming blindnesses.
              Nothing comes to mind.
              Family, beauty... and when code works perfectly without an edit.
              Ethereum is a good thing. Please keep it so.
              Jeff Ploughman

            
              2018/05/27 5:56:54 AM GMT+7
              Thomas Greco - nice person, connects people and defuses conflicts
Joseph Poon - brilliant thinker, super nice person, doing it for the good of humanity
Vlad Zamfir - totally committed to Casper - persistent and nice person
              Ethereum Community Fund, Cosmos, EDCON, GivETH
              Open source, permissionless, decentralised, inclusive, always seeking to improve the tech and build the community for the betterment of humanity.
              Turing complete = decentralised applications built on top of a decentralised payment platform, proof of stake to replace proof of work. 
              The decentralised governance decision to hard fork to rectify the Dao hack.
              User experience too difficult for ordinary people:
- Too hard to run a synched full node and Mist Browser/Wallet.
- Whisper and Swarm - great concepts but I have no idea how to use them.
- Hard to manage (backup, recover) private keys securely - esp multi sig. 
- Parity tech may be good in some respects but I do not trust them to do what is best for the whole community. 
 
              Synching a full node now over 1TB is very hard - yet there are no clear instructions as to how to run a pruned node to support Mist/Ethereum Wallet. This forces everyone to take security short cuts.
              Miners are making too much for too long - we need to get to proof of stake and scaleability asap to stop loss of value to EOS and other pretenders

              Someone who contributes more to the community that they expect in return
              Seek to achieve high performance in my own activities and goals and contribute as much as I can during my life to build a broad and highly capable community for the betterment of humanity.
              Most likely very challenging, much trouble and conflict ahead as the old order struggles to overcome the limitations and constraints of legacy organisations and conventional thinking.  However as a globally coordinated community we can build better tools, solutions and platforms that can offer the opportunity for a longer and better life for those who chose to adopt and join.
              Parity/Polkadot/Gavin Woods - brilliant in so many ways but not at all clear whether he is more of a threat or a contributor.
              Solving difficult problems - using my great advantages and good fortune to help other people on a large scale

            
              2018/05/27 6:20:36 AM GMT+7
              Joe Lubin: work ethic, commitment to the ecosystem, and maintaining and supporting a long term vision for decentralized technology.
Vlad Zamfir: intellectual honesty, voicing unpopular opinions in the face of those simply here for the price of eth.
Karl Floersch: passion for what he does, his energy is palpable.
              Women in Blockchain groups, wherever they are.

              Inclusivity, transparency, commitment to open and healthy dialogue.
              The vision of the platform. Still here because of the community and the fact that the original vision is still valid and happening.
              July 30, 2015
The way the Ethereum network came to life in a decentralized way. Amazing. 
              Not frustrating but the need to decentralize better is needed. 
              Discussion about the price of ether or even worse the ICO focus..
              Can’t think of anything 
              Intellectually honest, avoid tribalism, open to others from outside our ecosystem.
              Inclusivity, try to understand others points of views and values 
              :) an Ethereum network that enables new social, political and economic models that enfranchise more people.
              Existing power centers finding ways to restrict or limit decentralized compute use cases 
              Still trying to answe this for myself :) for now my path brings me satisfaction and meaning but it’s a lifelong mission.
              
              Michael Wuehler

            
              2018/05/27 9:01:56 AM GMT+7
              I'm very friendly with Dmitry and Maia Buterin, aside from the fact that they nurtured Vitalik...they're both amazingly inspirational in the way they choose to learn, live and embrace living, and they share their journey publicly and openly. 
Jordi Baylina, is committed to solving critical issues that hinder overall growth of the network and he's also among the most humble and moral humans in this space. I'm grateful to have spent time getting to see him work and listen to him talk. He's an honest hacker and here to oversee and protect the blockchain sphere. He's also a spectacular hugger ♡ 
Omar Bahm has been reporting on everything blockchain since I entered this space in late 2015, and he's very knowledgeable, reliable, and trustworthy. Everything changes so fast in this space that it's hard to keep up without someone like him. He also has never sold out for money, this is a very important purposeful choice on his part because he receives offers daily. He will only voice support of projects he truly believes in. I'm grateful for everything I've learned from him. Honest and opinionated, and down to earth. 
Griff Green is also another guy who has been loyal and represented the best part of humanity within this ecosystem. I've watched him explore, grow, and accept the challenges that come with building tools to change the world.  He is always smiling and will give stop everything to give a meaningful hug or massage the tensions outta your back. 
Taylor Monahan, I fucking love her ♡!! She was the very first lady that I saw in Ethereum. I noticed her because she was so passionate about helping others learn. She was handling support issues and under constant pressure, but she never doesn't show up. She is here around the clock and I know this because I am too. I see her commitment to creating change. She is vocal and fearless when exploring these uncharted territories that we've all chosen to inhabit together. 
I'm tempted to just continue answering this question alone...I could go on forever here, I love everyone!
The Ethereum community builders have a few things in common: smart, committed to creating change, visionary, givers, believers, that contribute to the greater good of humanity. No matter what lead each of us here, we're here and we choose to contribute. We all NEED and deserve FREEDOM from the invisible chains. 
              If by "loosely related to" you accept building on the Ethereum blockchain. I'll have to mention my baby first, Swarm City, we are passionately building a platform to connect our peers who want to transact freely. We're creating tools for users to build their own decentralized marketplaces, so that freedom can become a reality for anyone. We're exposing regular people to blockchain. We started as a group of activists and entrepreneurs, we've organically grown over the past 3 years, our struggle has been real, but we are stronger than ever and heading for our version 2 Boardwalk release <-- shameless plug ♡ 
MyCrypto provides an integral service and their community builders have bridged many of the  gaps between users and other existing projects, like etherscan and shapeshift, etc. Any new crypto user could visit the MyCrypto support link and learn everything they need to know about how to safely purchase, trade, and store tokens.
The Giveth, Aragon, Status teams have all worked hard to solve many issues that exceed the scope of their own project's mission into creating governance models, solving scaling issues, and building stronger communities...the mission statements and ideologies of all the above named projects are similar and pure. 
The best of the best people are involved in Ethereum. 
              Freedom, choice, decentralization, transparency, autonomous, knowledge, organic growth, meaningful work, stability, reputation, security, community
Because it's the right thing to do
              At the beginning of 2014, I quit my job with no plan. My life and my perspective on living abruptly shifted when my 16 year old daughter passed away in February 2012. 
I managed to survive on autopilot, showing up for work, breathing, and sleeping, until one day I woke up focused on the fact that I wasn't born to merely exist...I was desperate and broken and I asked the universe to set me on my path to fulfilling my purpose in life. 
Shortly thereafter, I saw an ad about a rideshare app launching in my area and I applied for it. I got accepted and was tasked to launch Lyft and Uber in Louisville. I enjoyed the freedom of setting my own hours, meeting new people, and seeing the stars as the view from my office. I felt okay. I needed that in my life. I also noticed a few problematic areas that prevented this business model from being ideal for the drivers and I started looking for ways to solve it. One of the biggest problems was the interference of the corporation and the regulators into the peer 2 peer transactions. They restricting drivers to the point that there's barely any earning potential. The business model is designed to benefit the corp and they're just plain greedy. 
I became an activist of sorts and an educator, and in my quest for freedom I stumbled upon Ethereum. It was under $7 per token, which meant nothing to me at the time. But I hyperstudied for at least 2 weeks and came out with a new outlook on everything. My mind was blown. 
A few months in... the DAO project happened. I owned about $100 worth of bitcoin that I bought in 2016 for my birthday and mother's day. I fumbled to trade my bitcoin for ether to invest in the DAO because I was a crypto virgin up until that point. Great times ♡
The project I was working on was gaining momentum...so I found ethereum on the path towards fulfilling my purpose. And I'm eternally grateful, this is my world now. I support myself and my family from 100% crypto. I am free and I'm committed to sharing it with anyone who will listen. 
Obviously...I'm here writing you a novel. 
              My happiest memory related to Ethereum would have to be seeing Swarm City presented at Devcon 3!! It was an absolute dream come true for me. Not only did we present on the big stage, but I also met Dmitry in person for the first time at this conference. It went like this...I was by myself on the escalator going up when I looked up and saw him on the opposite escalator going down. I immediately shouted,  hey Dmitry, and started running down the up... I wasn't sure if he would recognize me or not, but I hugged him anyways and as it turned out he addressed me like a friend and addressed me by name! Just whoa! I had worked with him previously and had calls with him, but this was real life. This was no small detail to me... it was a moment of truth. It felt really good to be acknowledged and accepted into the Ethereum community. 
But recently at the Edcon conference, I got to awkwardly meet Vitalik as well but only because I approached him stalker style from behind while he was busy chatting it up with a few guys, and I touched his right arm!! I was looking directly at his arm and petting him... like a cat or something... haha!! He paused and tilted his down and my way, no facial expression or words came from him. I introduced myself, told him thank you and walked away 100% fulfilled!! 

              Thanks, just keep up the hard work. It's very much appreciated!! 
              Scammers and ICO craze
              
              Anyone who contributes without the  need for greed
              I'm just me ♡ 
I see and feel truths
              Decentralize Everything... we're not tearing down what already exists but we're building something better along side it. 
               I'm worried that as things become more mainstream that more and more greedy bad actors will invade the blockchain space, and it'll be harder for people to find out what it's really all about.
I think some people see bitcoin and crypto as a get rich quick scheme, but it's not about money here. It never should be. Only those who suffer from the systematically ingrained scarcity mindset are focused on that aspect.
I think greed will always be the thing that effectively divides the community...I think it's the obvious way to differentiate  
              Love ♡... it's the only piece of me that will I'll carry with me outside of this lifetime.
Love is pure. Love is free. Love is meant to be shared. Love can change everything in the blink of an eye.
Love is Magic ♡
              Thank you for taking the time to survey the community. I'm happy to contribute my insight. I'm interested in seeing what you're
              Jenn Williams ♡

            
              2018/05/27 9:27:19 AM GMT+7
              Joseph Lubin, Jarred(StatusTeam), Vlad, Aragon Team,  district0x Team, 0xProject Team, Ameir(blockgeeks), Dimitry Buterin, Airswap Team, Bernd Lapp, ConsenSys Team, Decentraland Team, Zeppeling Team, Griff Green(Giveth Team) & Ethereum Foundation.
              ETHGlobal, Ethereal, DevCon, Ethereum Alliance Enterprise, ConsenSys, Giveth, Etherscan, Ethgastation, Hackathons but I believe they are directly related :) I couldnt find the “loosely” ones or I might didn’t get the question. :)
              Buidl(Development), Decentralization, Transparency, Security & Purpose.
              The opportunity to contribute to a beautiful future together, the sense of purpose to buidl a better & fair future world for everyone, the community engagement & open source development full of love & propuse between everyone. The altruist principle of giving!
              Q3 2016 when I found the existence of Blockchain & Ethereum Foundation followed by the appearance of my favorite projects such as Status, Aragon, District0x, Lunyr, 0xProject, Mew(now MyCrypto), Decentraland, Zeppelin, that gave me hope again in my professional field(as designer & creator) & encourage me to follow the same dream we all born with, to buidl a better world than the one we received. It felt like home, the place where we all came from, a cosmic space full of love for creating solutions for a better future for current & next generations.
And also the crazy 2017 where we all experienced the ICO madness, I love when they were just a few with real teams & awesome puroposes!
              I would love to learn how to start coding for Ethereum, learn how to contribute more in that sense to start buidling & participate in hackthons. I would love to dedicate all my time, creativity & knowledge to Ethereum and the projects I love.
              People focusing on pricing, the FUD of mainstream media but specially the motherf*cker scamers 
              For me Status have gone way beyond any expectation, I love everything, specially the community love that drives all the collaboration between projects, all the details in each steps you take, the open source sense, the philosophy of giving tools to engage us, the transparency about funds and the creation of platforms to give opportunities to everyone. Last but not least, the extraordinary DApp development, beautiful, sleek, stylish. Love it since the 1st day! 
              A person that simply wants to contribute to buidl a better world without expecting something in return. 
              Love for want you do, always keep studying, researching, learning, get the shit done, hard work, follow your dreams, never give up. Be the change you want to see in the world. Give without waiting something in return. Be yourself & enjoy this beautiful journey!
              A future where everyone follows his/her own purpose in life, where all the people do what they love in a daily basis sharing their passion & knowledge to contribute, doing their best for the others. Where love, peace, understanding & creativity rules for the good of all.
              Bugs in smart contracts & scalability but I believe they will be solved the same way we did with internet & all new techs.
              The power to create that gives me the opportunity to be part of this new era where we can buidl the world that we have dream about.
              Keep on your outstanding work! Love what you are doing! 
              Xavier Iturralde @xavieriturralde @xibot

            
              2018/05/27 10:29:10 AM GMT+7
              Karl floersch, vlad z, loi lu
              Free, decentralized, liberties

            
              2018/05/27 11:10:46 AM GMT+7
              Yoichi Hirai, Bob Summerwill
              Apache Software Foundation, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, LessWrong
              I believe we should aim to do whatever leads to a better civilization in the future and not be too dogmatic about the means to do so. That said, we currently share a belief in the importance of incentive alignment, trust-minimization, economically sustainable models, and decentralization as tools to achieve that aim.
              It has the community where discussions are the most civilized (eg focusing on ideas, no ad homenims, presuming goodwill, no trolls), where people understand the importance of being open to new ideas, changing one's mind, being honest about technical shortcomings
              ethwaterloo
              
              
              
              Open-mindedness, honesty and non-defensiveness
              
              
              I worry about the equitability of the ether distribution (but it is probably the best that could have been done), and the economic sustainability of pushing for as low issuance as possible

            
              2018/05/27 11:33:40 AM GMT+7
              uhhh, i just think vitalik is cool because hes not a normie cryptofag “LAMBOLAMBOLAMBOPOOINLOO” type of person who just pumps and dumps their crypto. plus hes kinda autistic which is a bonus too.
              not sure.
              individuality, freedom, privacy. machiavellian ideals are a must for your team btw.
              faster transactions, and it holds TONS of potential due to smart contracts and the like.
              switching all of my bitcoin holdings to ethereum holdings. 
              i think the word needs to be gotten out more about ethereum to the normies.
              4chan’s /biz/ drives me nuts.
              you guys are doing much better than bitcoin imo.
              thats a pretty broad question tbh since i think ethereum community members come from all walks of life.
              thats tough to say. im a libertarian, and i hate jews.
              one in which the zionist-run banks are no longer in a position of influence due to widespread adoption of cryptocurrency.
              bitcoin shitting the bed, which would make ethereum drop in price significantly. this also holds the potential for the flippening to occur.
              my antidepressant and adderall prescriptions. not even joking either.
              
              hmu on telegram at sofiyainwonderland

            
              2018/05/27 12:21:38 PM GMT+7
              Alex Van De Sande. Jamie Pitts. Griff Green. All three of them are level headed individuals with good intentions.
              
              inclusiveness, openness/transparency
              The idea that programs can be put on a blockchain. The cool people I've met in the community and their drive to make this thing work keep me here.
              
              The miner reward reduction last fall could have been handled better. There was not enough communication about the change.
              People who complain without encouraging, proposing, or buidling solutions.
              
              Someone who is kind and open-minded.
              Kindess
              Ethereum being as ubiquitous and "invisible" as TCP/IP.
              
              
              Thanks for doing this survey! Great stuff :)
              Hudson Jameson

            
              2018/05/27 12:48:36 PM GMT+7
              Jordi, Hudson, Taylor Monahan, Nick Johnson, Bokky Poobah, Robert Bent, Oleksii Matiiasevych,  Alexey Akhunov, Alex Van de Sande, Karl Floersch, Luis and Jorge from Aragon, Jack du Rose, King Flurkel (in order) 
They all put the community first, speak eloquently about decentralization,  and instead of working for money, they all are in this to make the world a better place!
              BURNING MAN! Aragon, Giveth, Swarm City, Status, Ethereum Foundation, Parity, Consensys, anarchism, sea steading, sovereignty movements of all types, sharing economy companies, monero, mycrypto,
              Radical Inclusion, Radical Self-reliance, Communal Effort, Civic Responsibility and all the other awesome burning man principles: https://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-principles/
              I wanted to decentralize the sharing economy and the community and the ethos kept me here.
              probably the dao hard fork... it was a huge relief... 
              of course i regret that we didnt attack the DAO Hacker on the etc chain :-( 
I wish the clients worked better.... this chain is very difficult to work with... but make sure to read all the complaints that Robbie, Sina and cryptowanderer have
              Trolls... but also people complaining about trolls... they arent THAT bad. I also get sick of all the money hungry people...
              decentralization :-(
              working on a tragedy of the commons issue
              always leave a room better than when you came in, control your inner world, the voice in your head is full of shit, do onto others, make sure she comes first, the burning man principles: https://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-principles/
              no coercion, no artificial scarcity, free people  cooperating without hierarchy in peace with the ability to opt into any system they choose. 
              The money is way ahead of the tech....
              I do. Cause I live! I am going to change the world... I am changing the world it feels amazing.
              this was hard... 
              Griff Green

            
              2018/05/27 1:28:40 PM GMT+7
              Griff Green of Giveth (Smart with a big heart) Kumavis of MetaMask (Actually has users and no token) Andy Milenius of Dapphub (Passion for Unix philosophy)
              Conferences [Consensus, EdCon, Devcon, EthDenver ect] - Meetups [London, NYC ect]- Software Dev [Consensys, Dapphub, ect]
              Freedom [People need more control over their own destinies] 
              The ability to create and use software that can I could control, that' can't be tampered with, and does something useful. I'm still around, but I'm not a blockchain maximalist of any kind.
              Starting the Ethereum meetup group in seattle because of the relationship that started as a result.
              Sure, but I'm not one to judge.
              I don't have much time for that kinda thing.
              Sure, but I'm sure you get more than enough feedback about every... single... thing... EVER
              The same qualities that make anyone a good person
              https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bu30GYcG2H7Tp_MCBFmwJehVQu9v0nzmb50LDa8izfs/edit?usp=sharing
              The future is a funny thing. We rarely notice the future we are living in, and spend too much time worrying about the future that will be.
              Technology is a double edged sword
              No comment
              
              Kenny Rowe

            
              2018/05/27 2:02:10 PM GMT+7
              Founders etc do not really matter to me - I respect smart people and love handing out with them but that’s about it 
              The original internet declaration and the cyber punk movement 
              Empowerment - anyone now is able to create trust quickly and cheaply; which leads to inclusion as more people can be part of global economy; and that gives us social equality and in the end freedom leading to moslov’s self actualisation  
              It’s a path to self actualisation, via new economic and political methods including liquid democracy enabled by new technology; still believe the same to be true 
              DevCon 2 - immersed properly for the first time in the amazing community
              Folks pretend we do not live in the physical world and ignore the need to share governance with existing structures; any new order that ignores basic realities by building idealistic models and then ignores everything else is doomed to failure.
              See above 
              We need to speed up human governance whether liquid democracy or quadratic votes or something else 
              One that does not have a predefined idea of what a good community member is :)
              Be kind; show love even when it’s hard to do so; be mindful of your actions; forgive whenever possible; be brave and act even if you scared 
              One that hopefully surprises me
              Not really - it will either work or fail; both are acceptable outcomes as long as we learn in either case 
              My family, my friends - I am sad without them and happy with them. 
              
              Alex Batlin

            
              2018/05/27 2:15:25 PM GMT+7
              Joseph Poon, Karl Floersch, David Knott
              
              Positive social impact, transparency 
              Vitalik's blog
              
              Not welcoming enough to new developers that are trying to break into the space
              
              
              
              
              
              Ethereum will fall apart if Vitalik leaves

            
              2018/05/27 3:19:11 PM GMT+7
              Jason Carver - Web3 development and connecting communities
Lefteris Karapetsas - Passion for scaling and connecting within the ethereum and also the whole 2nd layer protocols community.
Hudson Jameson - for conducting the core devs meetings well.
              
              I think there's a great sense of community building and progress, for example things like the Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians where anyone can contribute and work together in the Ethereum improvement process.
              The good balance of both development and community building.
              I'd have to say it's not a happiest single memory but a collection of them that have led me to grow passionate about Ethereum and especially it's plans for scaling. If I had to single one out it'd be the talks during Disrupt SF 2017.
              At which point consensus is made is a bit too vague and undefined in my opinion. I feel there should be more set  guidelines which help specify at which point we have consensus for decisions that need it.
              Spread of misinformation, but in saying that I do like helping spread the right information when that occurs so it goes both ways.
              
              Someone with passion for the growth of Ethereum and understanding of the people within the community.
              
              One were everyone can have access to instant transaction and run applications using decentralized blockchains.
              That Ethereum turns into Skynet.
              My family, my passion and my goals.
              
              Mattias Nystrom

            
              2018/05/27 6:58:12 PM GMT+7
              Peter Zilagi,  Felix Lange, VIktor Tron, Nick Johnson
              Bitcoin
              Decentralization, Censorship Resistant
              Technology, Swarm,
              Swarm orange summit,  Devcons
              Group structure is not clear to the people .. may be we should list people in EF and say what they are working on.
              nothing
              I wont say failing,, bit we are very sow on scalability
              keep one's discussion related to technology only
              Opportunity to all, Life to all, Happiness to all
              Every one is truly equal
              I fear about goverments somehow banning ethereum
              Happiness
              
              Zahoor Mohamed

            
              2018/05/28 12:13:50 AM GMT+7
              Karl Floersch - he has a profoundly kind spirit.
Albert Ni - He's pragmatic and able to get management shit done.
Nick Johnson - I love his special projects like ether.cards, the byzantium forks he gave around, and of course ENS.
              * Whatever the philosophy that is in "Radical Markets"---marketifying everything.
* Effective Altruism
* Rationalism (in the Yudkowsky sense)
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* Neo-liberalism?
* Anarcho-capitalism?
              * Benevolence --- It's why we deserve to win instead of say, EOS.
* Pragmatism --- It's what we'll need to win.
* As little ideology as possible --- This is a big part of what killed Bitcoin.
* Proudly compromising --- see above.
* Internationalism --- Not getting caught up in whatever social neuroses (social justice, immigration, etc) that are currently plaguing the United States / Europe.  Getting caught up in these will make it harder big a longer-lived organization (see books from the Long Now on this)

              * I liked that it was a generalized bitcoin.  I thought it was a better design that bitcoin in every way.
* I'm still in Ethereum because the technology as well as it's ramifications are fascinating.

              * Seeing Vitalik nail an interview that he would have previously been socially awkward at.  I like to see Vitalik grow in strength.
* I will be happy when Ethereum is able to fundamentally change one industry.  I suppose spankchain.com is the one that is currently closest.

              Under Ming is was incredibly hard to get things done.  We were so risk adverse it was paralyzing.
              I still think we often move too slowly.  I wish getting things reimbursed was easier---perhaps making systems like Expensify part of our standard workflow.
I wish we could reset/change the password to our @etheruem.org email address.

              * We've failed at community and coordination among the different silos.  I don't know how much this matters.
* We still don't have an org chart of the organization.
* I strongly suspect we are vastly overpaying for our Amazon services.  Route53 is painful and doesn't support DNSSEC, and Amazon EC2 is very expensive.  Both of these could be replaced with cheaper or more featureful services (say DNSimple or DigitalOcean).   But we are wed to Amazon for whatever historical reasons.
* I would like to know how much money matters.  I often try to save on various small costs to Ethereum.  I would like guidance of how much I should actually exert in doing this (e.g., the various Amazon stuff we're probably overpaying for.)
              Someone who is willing to compromise on their sacred values.  Someone who is willing to be pragmatic.
              http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues/
              Ethereum enabling positive sum games and market that were previously impossible.
              * I wonder if we're paying people enough compared to say, orgs like Dfinity or EOS.
* I want to do everything possible to ensure Ethereum never gets taken over by American SJWism or Silicon Valley culture.  If either happened, I would probably leave.
              I am interested in moving the needle back on corruption as well as enabling profoundly interesting novel things that weren't possible before.
              
              Virgil Griffith

            
              2018/05/28 12:19:53 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - Aggressively challenging decisions and theories by those in and out of the Ethereum community
Nick Johnson - Building all kinds of projects that are helping the foundations of the space especially from a usability point of view. As well as constantly helping the community with things like the Solidity golf or donating to charity (cryptokitties) showing we're not just a bunch of privileged early adopters
Bob Summerwill - Diversity and transparency
              
              Decentralisation, freedom, individual autonomy, automation, disruption of traditional technology
              The investment opportunity.
The chance to change the world for the better, even by just a little
              When I started contributing something towards the community, even just a little. Price gains are always nice
              As a dapp developer, I want the scaling to be done soon so we can make apps that matter to more than those that crave decentralisation
              Too many scams and shilling of scam coins. Always being weary of being vulnerable to hacks or scams
              
              Someone that cares about decentralisation, cares about individual freedoms and control, someone that knows what the overall vision of Ethereum is. Someone that knows how to explain to those that aren't educated why Ethereum is important
              Always keep learning. Always find a way to give back. Be passionate and hard working about the things you love and you will attract relationships and financial reward/compensation
              A future where the individual is at the center and their decisions make a difference to the world
              Centralisation of mining and staking. 51% attacks. Vitalik's death. Unintentional forks that fracture the community.
              Learning, giving back, being passionate about things that I do. Teaching people that want to know what or how you do something. 
              
              Jeff Lau

            
              2018/05/28 2:25:01 AM GMT+7
              Jon Choi. explaining complicated cryptoeconomics in an understandable way.
Hsiao Wei. leading the sharding team, but very humble about it.
              community currencies.
mesh networking.
              freedom of choice. ethereum should enable anyone to use your skills to do whatever you want (as long as you dont hurt anybody else, etc.)
              i saw the earlier use cases of bitcoin (silkroad, sending money to friends). then you had the second wave of all the bitcoin forks and "decentralized" exchanges, dezentralized wikipedia, all that stuff. And suddenly there was ethereum with that huge promise. --> simply curiosity.
Working in ethereum space now, because it unified some of my interests of economics ("having the big picture") and building things.
              The happiest memory was going to visit ethfans, imToken etc in Hangzhou, China early 2017. Getting to know those dudes, who since then became good friends. Just hanging out with them and nerding about the starting ICO craze and high gas cost haha
not a memory, but something which keeps being awesome: comparing the ethereum space from this big-finance-corporate-perspective is pretty funny. all these people working at banks, exchanges (where i used to work) got no idea what is going on, while a couple of people around the world, releasing open source code
              too young to be frustrated.
              too much work. get more people into the space ;)
              no.
              having an overlapping interest in at least two of all the topics, spanning ethereum (social sciences, economics, computer science, game theory, connecting with people, culture......). While having => one solid skill which she is willing to share with anyone else.
              - ask my brother for his opinion
- follow small questions because they might lead you to bigger ones
- always have a goal in mind
- enjoy what i am doing
              i feel there are too many dystopias in movies, books right now. i think everything is gonna be better for more and more people. I am open to what it will look like :)
              i am young and inexperienced. maybe the whole space is. maybe we lack experience to get to a later stage (a running "world computer").
              Learning and using new things.
Nice food.
              
              chris

            
              2018/05/28 4:37:15 AM GMT+7
              I‘m not that much into persons but the vision of the project...
              
              I see eth like some infrastructure for the world... 
              The idea of the world computer...
              The discovery of ethereum, because it‘s giving a new hope in a rather manipulated world...
              Not understanding what the fork really means...
              Blockchain communities are exhausting for someone who does‘t have a IT-background...
              I haven‘t seen any mainstream applications yet...
              He‘s well informed and able to contribute in a positive way to the community...
              Leave a world behind that our kids are able to live in
              A stable, sustainable and respectful world
              Centralised power is always dangerous...
              My decisions

            
              2018/05/28 4:38:16 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - Disciplined researcher, admits how much we don't know.
Simon de la Rouviere - Enthusiastic and optimistic.
Christoph Jentzsch - Discusses difficult failure of The DAO publicly so we can learn from it.
              

              Ultimate goal should be human flourishing.
              
              Starting to grasp for the first time what it actually is and how it works.
              The ongoing refusal to address off-chain governance is frustrating, but starting to change.
              "When lambo" and all other money-grabbing behavior is exhausting.
              
              
              
              Meeting all material needs through application of advanced tech, or extinction of most humans through application of advanced tech. Take your pick.
              Plutocracy if we stick to token-based governance. Blockchain-enforced fascism. People who want to help each other but can't because computer says no.

            
              2018/05/28 5:00:25 AM GMT+7
              Karl floresch, Gavin wood, Richard Moore 
              Georgism, open source, p2p
              Openness, decentralization 
              The emerging nature of the technology, and its promise for proof of stake. 
              All the ethglobal hackathons. 
              Lack of decentralized services, to much focus on enterprise. 
              No
              No
              Anyone
              Decentralization. 
              A decentralized one
              The potential for proof of stake not to work. 
              Ethereum
              Ethereum is the best

            
              2018/05/28 5:29:44 AM GMT+7
              Karl Floursch - for bringing genuinely excitement and a desire to make the ideas accessible to all
Phil Daian - for not being afraid to explore weaknesses and flaws, so the community gets better
Jon Choi - for giving our movement a philosophical groundedness and reminding us why we #BUIDL
              Libratarianism - economics controls our world, and free markets enable more fair economics
Democratic Socialism - we should help others help themselves, more fair societies enable that
Cypherpunks - use cryptography to enable privacy and security outside of government control, man
              Respect - for others and ourselves
Freedom - freedom to transact with censorship or borders
Solutions - we build the future, because no one else will
              I originally got in because I saw opportunity to use my skillset in a hot new technology. I stayed because I see that the community at it's core believes in creating solutions to huge social and economic problems, which existing institutions are unable or unwilling to change.
              Everytime I have a prolonged conversation about what it means to create value and use that to guide your application flow. I feel like I've meet a group of my peers who gets why problems need to be solved and are actively working on solving them.
              Many in our community focus too much on exceptionalism. Also, we are not doing enough to be inclusive.
              So much to keep track of, including conferences, news, projects, opinions, ideas, etc. Both good and exhausting
              Taking Smart Contract security seriously. But that is changing.
              Respects other's opinions, builds awesome stuff, colloborates well with others, believes and understands the mission
              Compassion, curiosity, openness, solve real problems
              One where we all work together to build each other up and make our world the best possible place it can be
              Co-option by the same powers we seek to replace
              Be a part of building the future and having a positive impact on it

            
              2018/05/28 9:14:34 AM GMT+7
              Jeffrey Wilcke 
              DAO Stack, pioneering
              Democratisation, equality, globalisation
              Smart contracts, open source, decentralised. Global potential
              Realising the power of a DAO
              
              
              
              Open minded, relatively blockchain agnostic
              Identifying as a member of the human species, not a sub group 
              High-tech, decentralised, sustainable
              Centralised control of intrinsic systems
              Love for those around me, nature and the universe

            
              2018/05/28 10:05:47 AM GMT+7
              Karl F - committed to solving hard problems and being inclusive and educating those wanting to learn more
Ben Edginton - absurdley smart and practical with very low ego, good at prioritizing
Lane Rettig - hearts in the right place, effective community organizer. 
WE NEED MORE WOMEN 
              OSS, meetup, consumer protection/privacy
              Open to access, contribute, and build on - level playing field, open to new members and continually enriching/stronger and more inclusive community
Easy to access, contribute, and build on - if it’s not easy both from a tech perspective and organizationally we’ve failed as this will just be for the technological elite 
Decentralized operation, several clients, distributed mining/staking pools - needs to be trusted and fault tolerant otherwise what’s the point in a blockchain 
Governed by global community interests and not individual economic interests - needs to be continually developed and improved upon from a place of good so we can have an agnostic technology that can be used to build better social, political and economic systems not a technology or community that enriches a few core contributors/ether holders
              Phenomenal technology platform for change in social, political and economic systems. Place to be extremely creative in systems/business model design with a working technology enabling and underpinning it. It works, other blockchains don’t yet or don’t have the functionality / open network I need to build systems for the world not just enterprises 
              EthCC or one of the ETHGlobals. Great seeing people in real life working on many manifestations of the same ideals and being truly open to helping each other. 
              Plenty. People claiming ethereum or parts of it for their own self-interest or ego (how many founders do we have now?). Lack of professionalism in communicating priorities/roadmap and shipping. Too few people/teams working on the hard problems and not enough competing approaches (red team blue team pushing each other to get to working code/implementations faster). Distractions of bad tokens and people trying to get their locked up funds back. Overly focused on tech and not the user - most people still think ethereum is just a crypto currency and have no idea how to use it
              Everyone thinking their own approach is the best
              Need more women and diverse backgrounds in the space (including non-technical people) 
              Bias to act and contribute, not just a spectator/socialite. Non violent communicator and effective listener. Team player. 
              Impact - need high ROI on the activities I spend most of my time on (social and economic). Fulfillment - gravitate towards strong relationships and interesting opportunities 
              A more creative one where individuals are free to have more flexible and varied work schedules (not married to one company or institution)
              Financial security - please manage foundation funds responsibly and for next100 years not next 10 
              Relationships, being present in every day activities (outdoors, working with great people, eating healthy food), working on wild changing/bettering projects 
              
              Andreas Wallendahl

            
              2018/05/28 11:41:04 AM GMT+7
              I have not spent time with anyone in the community so it's difficult to appreciate the fine detail of each members. With that being said, I particularly appreciate Péter Szilágyi that seems to be an all around great person. I feel very inspired by Joey Krug as he's not talking much but has been working non-stop on Augur. I'll say you Jarrad also, because I give a lot of value to your project and I see through your blog all the hard work that your team is doing, it's impressive, also Status is probably the project that I personally need the most. But to be honest a top3 is difficult because there are so many great people working hard. I must give a shout out to Robin Hanson too, although not directly involved in Ethereum, I know he has great influence over Vitalik, Joey, and many more including me.
              Aragon, Augur & Status are projects I'm looking forward to see succeed. But I follow closely many projects that I really hope to see succeed as well.
              Making human society better.
              It happened progressively. When Mike Hearn left, I took some time to analyse the situation and then realised something was deeply wrong with the Bitcoin ecosystem. I then also realised something was deeply right with the Ethereum ecosystem.
              That moment when I realised Ethereum gave me the opportunity to have a very meaningful life, without having to worry about the bottom of Maslow's pyramid...
              I think I'm a little bit confused with the end game of Ethereum's token supply. I'm not complaining as I think I understand the challenge, but it creates a bit of un-easiness thinking about this blurry aspect. 
              The community is certainly messy, but I guess it's normal. It's just so full of potential to affect society in so many ways. I hope once Akasha will be released, it will enable better organisation / separation of the different Ethereum communities.
              I think I'd really love to see more discussion about how to actually improve the world with our blockchain tech, but outside of the technical or financial details. Vitalik is doing exactly that on his latest blog posts talking about how to leverage economics, property, taxes in order to improve things. 
              Someone that wants to be a net-positive in the world, hopefully.
              Being brutally honest and helplessly optimistic.
              Tough question. If we succeed, that's a future where human life on earth is not only sustainable but where people are educated, kind, free (as in freedom) and with equal opportunities to all. Ah yes, happy too.
              It won't be easy to get non-technical people (most people) to understand that gas fee, we'll need some UX geniuses...
              Being a net-positive in the world. Because it feels good.
              Thank you for asking those important questions!
              @gustavmarwin_

            
              2018/05/28 12:55:59 PM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson: Does his absolute best to be impartial when appropriate, and injects his opinion in the right contexts.
Afri: Been around sometime, civil, active contributor.
Vlad Zamfir: His honesty, even when it is contrarian and likely to kick up some dust.
              Aragon.
Swarm.
Raiden.
              Decentralisation: as a means to an end, where the end is, roughly speaking, lowering the risk that decision makers abuse their powers in a way that the majority wouldn't want.
Open and transparent: In terms of governance. Because the alternative seems unworkable in the long term.
Privacy: I think Vlad Zamfir says it best when he points out that without privacy, blockchains could produce dystopian outcomes.
Civility: I want people to engage without transforming into trolls. I accept that people have different temperaments, and we should allow for that variation, but without some modicum of civility, we turn into the worst subsection of the btc community.

              Swarm. First, I am financially invested. Second, I intend to build a dapp over the coming years
              -
              I think establishing how governance can be improved is extremely important, so surveys like this are a great step in the right direction.
Further, while I don't know the ins and outs of the Eth Foundation and their available funds, it seems reasonable to me to increase their rate of spending. For example, I don't think UX r&d has had nearly as much investment as it could or should have.
On the other hand, I recognise that some of these issues aren't so much a problem of funding, but an issue with the pipeline of talent.
              Deviatefish or whatever his name is on reddit. *Sigh*.
              Mainly failing to focus enough on UX. I have concerns over how we integrate "the masses".
              Civil and shares the other values mentioned above.
              
              5% chance we develop benevolent general A.I over the next 30 years, and a 95% we're screwed. 
              That a smart contract platform that doesn't value decentralisation becomes a dominant platform due to a better UX. And that privacy doesn't get built into dapps appropriately. The former concerns me more as I don't think the latter is likely to occur.
              Lots of different things. Family, friends, problems that need solving...

            
              2018/05/28 3:30:20 PM GMT+7
              Griff Green, Jordi Baylina, Joe Lubin. Their vision of how this world, our society needs to evolve, their political views, and what role technology and in particular Ethereum plays in this.
              Direct democracy, Switzerland, nation-less society
              integrity, consistency, transparency. To avoid blocks from stupid discussions.
              Programmable money, next generation cryptocurrency. Because I met the people, because of this great community.
              Realizing that I am financially independent, so I can work on the things and projects I really care about without caring (too much) about existential needs.
              More political discussion, more pragmatic approaches to developing this. we need to discuss more about the world we want to live in and how we get from the now to the future.
              UX
              UX
              Curiosity, willingness to learn, listening first, but not only, also speaking out when needed, contributions, trying to provide real value to "normal" users
              Do the right thing
              A great one: freedom, love, equal opportunities for people. Less corruption, less abuse of powers, no government.
              Can people deal with freedom?
              Kids, going further
              thank you, great initiative
              Stephan

            
              2018/05/28 6:09:43 PM GMT+7
              Hm. Hudson is tireless. Joseph Poon is excellent. And of course, Joe Lubin's staggeringly good at what he does. Which is nearly everything.
              Bitcoin, the decentralist wing of the Libertarians, and maybe P2P foundation.
              I'm not sure that infrastructure *should* have values, beyond Free Software ala Stallman. We don't have to shape our user's experiences, other than by just existing.
              Smart contracts. I don't much care how they're implemented, but I'm all about the smart contracts!
              Ha! DevCon0, when suddenly I could see we were going to win, because it was the first time I saw everybody in one place for the first time.
              The DAO crisis was mishandled very, very badly. I still don't know how the course of action that was taken was decided.
              I think we're doing pretty well. It continues to expand too fast to maintain the original culture: that's what success looks like. 
              The Foundation is largely ineffective. Scaling efforts are... weak. Questions about whether we have enough people writing software! Coordinated legal defense?
              No assholes. At least, very, very few, and they better be supremely productive assholes at that.
              I'm an existential nihilist: I think there's a substantial chance we go extinct in this century, and probably the primary risk factor is biotechnology. I'm working backwards from "boom" trying to prevent that. This perspective comes out of my time doing disaster planning work with the military in the US and UK.
              There are three breakthrough technologies that matter: the internet (post-scarcity for information), solar panels / wind (post-scarcity for energy in 10 years or so), and "clean meat" (lab-grown burgers!) which will make us post-scarcity for food with a little luck, and take all the cow-load off Nature. 
We are the grown-up form of the Internet.
              Is it a security?
              I'm on the anti-extinction team. The rest I don't really care about: let's just get that one right.
              Two questions I think would be worth asking on future versions of this survey:
1) How do you see the relationship between the blockchain and the nation state and its laws? (Basically driving at whether we think the internet needs to be its own jurisdiction) 
2) What are the other significant blockchain projects, either dapps or other technologies.
              Vinay Gupta

            
              2018/05/28 8:40:42 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, Griff Green, Alex Rea, Christian Reitwiessner, there are so many more actually..
              Colony, Blockchain government, Direct democracy
              Transparency, inclusion, fairness, collaboration
              The values above which lack in hierarchical organisations
              It's between presenting at devcon2 in Shanghai or spending my birthday at the ScalingNow meetup in Barcelona with all those lovely people
              Governance can be better done with some extra effort from Foundation
              Reading through tons of EIPs (ERCs specifically)
              Like I said, better governance is needed but wouldn't call the current state quite a "failure"
              Willingness to share and give back the love. Having a sound technical understanding of the platform is equally important. No ego-tickling needs (so many good and competent members are failing at this one)
              Love, truth, balance
              Blockchain based solutions permeating economics and government
              No. I'm fearless. There's nothing this community can't solve together.
              You do, because you're good and smart and beautiful
              
              Elena Dimitrova

            
              2018/05/29 4:22:41 AM GMT+7
              Victor Tron (inclusivity), Vlad Zamfir (technical integrity), Joseph Lubin (bringing Ethereum to enterprise)
              Open Financial Systems, Decentralization, Universal Basic Income
              Fair participation, open access to create a more inclusive world.
              Permissionless building, open platform, research community. 
              Devcon 3 when I met Victor Tron
              Lack of good developer tools - deployment frameworks, debugging tool, simulation tools, etc
              
              
              People who are here to build community or technology
              
              
              Governance structure that makes it less egalitarian through centralization of power

            
              2018/05/29 9:13:32 AM GMT+7
              Luis Ivan Cuende, Will Waren, Alex Van de Sande, Vlad Zamfir
They prioritize decentralized mission and are open-minded to new ideas and proposals
              Self-sovereign identity and peer-to-peer payments, exchange and loans.
Projects like 0x, Airswap, Dharma, Status, uPort, Aragon are good examples
              Celebrate freedom and openness to all human lifestyles and expressions
The network should remain as permissionless as possible
              Turing completeness, being able to program anything. Programmable money is super compelling but even moving indentities and organisations to the network is even more exciting which I later learned as I connected with more people in the community
              ETHCC in Paris. Meeting all the devs I read and talked to online, putting some faces to github, twitter and reddit profiles was really great. But also experiencing first hand how passionate and self-driven people are about this technology despite all the price speculation noise. 
              I still think there is room for improvement in terms of some aggressivenes or hatred towards some projects which goes against the permissionless motto. It’s only human to feel disgusted about some behaviours and instinctively talk down about them but it would be great if people were more tolerant or at least more neutral about some projects
              Not really, there is more tiring or exhausting stuff in other areas of my life
              Organization, although its permissionless I still think there could be some more prioritization. Sometimes it feels the energy is being split trying to achieve to many things at once. Sharding, PoS, State Channels, Plasma, DevTools, eWasm. If there was a more clear roadmap and some deadlines, the whole community energy could be more effiecient and really build up Ethereum to be the ultimate network/blockchain
              Supportive of all new projects, passionate about the decentralized mission and patient about educating everyone despite their technical literacy
              Be better tomorrow than you are today. 
No matter how hard it is right now, I’m always lucky to be where I am now.
              Separating money from state. Better democracies. Cryptocurrencies usage overcomes fiat
              Never relax in the current success. The next big project is still going to happen we should always push to be our best selves
              Progress. Creating great products. Engaging in constructive debates

            
              2018/05/29 12:31:13 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir,  Yoichi Hirai, Joe Lubin
              ConsenSys
              equality
              attracted - the promise, still there b/c it became de-facto standard for quick prototyping and experimentation
              
              funded using ICO, ETH/gas tokenomics,
              crypto twitter
              failed at scalability and cyber-security, failing at mass adoption
              
              always put yourself into the shoes of the other side
              the future without money
              That Ethereum will transform into a marketing brand, not a technology

            
              2018/05/29 2:32:42 PM GMT+7
              Gao Yen's, Li Youyou, Yen Xin. The mode of response in their letter
              We Chat and Weibo. The transfer of pictures 
              The value of legal currency in the world market
              It's value and prospect of ethereum gaining more attention in the world market
              The day I will get a huge some of ethereum in my wallet
              Nothing ever frustrate me in ethereum
              Volume of data for my internet 
              Publicity 
              More publicity and increase in value 
              Faith, courage and patience 
              A future where ethereum will serve as mode of legal electronic tender in the world
              No at all
              Upward movement
              I have not gotten any ethereum but have study little about it
              Isreal kalejaiye

            
              2018/05/29 3:04:43 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson for contributions to ENS, Taylor Monahan for zero to hero with MyEtherWallet and MyCrypto, Peter Van Valkenburgh/Stephen Palley (tied) for contributions in the legal space, Victor Maia for the Moon language and browser unveiled at Devon 3. The teams at Zeppelin/web3/metamask/brave/infura. 
              Unknown. Maybe the anonymous movement of 2010 or fans of Mr. ROBOT.
              Since my background is primarily consumer goods and legal consulting it's hard for me to evaluate the values because I still feel like an outsider. That should change by the end of the year.
              I have a deep sense that the EVM can change the way electronic evidence is stored to satisfy chain of custody challenges in court systems.
              The day I discovered Ethereum by checking my long ignored coinbase account in  2016.
              ICOs have tainted the public impression of Ethereum.
              It's the pioneer stage so I am pretty forgiving at this stage.
              Mass user adoption of the ethereum name service.
              Anyone with some combined knowledge of business models, concepts of return on investment, legal tech and cyber security, and what structured data bases are used for in real world applications.
              1. Absence diminishes mediocre passions and and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. 2. Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
              Where almost every personal service is subcontracted and most everything is delivered instead of shopped for in a brick and mortar storefront.
              I'm long term bullish. Mass adoption is probably still 10 years out.
              Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
              
              Scott H. Stevenson

            
              2018/05/29 3:05:47 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson for contributions to ENS, Taylor Monahan for zero to hero with MyEtherWallet and MyCrypto, Peter Van Valkenburgh/Stephen Palley (tied) for contributions in the legal space, Victor Maia for the Moon language and browser unveiled at Devon 3. The teams at Zeppelin/web3/metamask/brave/infura. 
              Unknown. Maybe the anonymous movement of 2010 or fans of Mr. ROBOT.
              Since my background is primarily consumer goods and legal consulting it's hard for me to evaluate the values because I still feel like an outsider. That should change by the end of the year.
              I have a deep sense that the EVM can change the way electronic evidence is stored to satisfy chain of custody challenges in court systems.
              The day I discovered Ethereum by checking my long ignored coinbase account in  2016.
              ICOs have tainted the public impression of Ethereum.
              It's the pioneer stage so I am pretty forgiving at this stage.
              Mass user adoption of the ethereum name service.
              Anyone with some combined knowledge of business models, concepts of return on investment, legal tech and cyber security, and what structured data bases are used for in real world applications.
              1. Absence diminishes mediocre passions and and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. 2. Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
              Where almost every personal service is subcontracted and most everything is delivered instead of shopped for in a brick and mortar storefront.
              I'm long term bullish. Mass adoption is probably still 10 years out.
              Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
              
              Scott H. Stevenson

            
              2018/05/29 11:05:34 PM GMT+7
              Jamie Pitts  - Dedication
Micah Zoltu - Interest in Governance
JarradH - makes cool polls
              Bitcoin obviously
Ethereum foundation
Fellowships of Ethereum magicians
              TRANSPARENCY - this is vital for any blockchain! Ethereum currently does not embody this to the extent that it should!
Immutability - The blockchain cannot be changed...
              The fact that it seemed like Bitcoin 2.0. recently Ive come to realize that Ethereum is much more like a huge field experiment. This is very interesting as a researcher currently working on a thesis on Ethereum governance. 
              The day I bought Ethereum and finally overcame my hesitation to invest in an interesting project.
              Definitely the DAO Fork and the (lack of) communication. in general the lack of transparency regarding what the Foundation does and does not do. 
Also the fact that communication channels are scattered and it is very hard to find coherent decisions anywhere.
              Yes, the discussion culture is sometimes not ideal. Of course there also the people that only care about profit, which steer the conversation in completely wrong directions, but I guess that is nearly impossible to remedy.
              Communication and transparency. 
              Dedication, Believe in blockchain technology as a driver for real change, an open mind
              Being a good person
              A future where we use our potential to help everyone and thus create a better, more sustainable future
              Yes, it is that Ethereum depends too much on one person. I know he is actively working on changing that, but it is a dangerous game to play
              I do not think there is much meaning in life. It is best enjoyed as it is
              Thank you for trying to further the discussion on Ethereum governance!
              Niclas W

            
              2018/05/30 12:46:05 AM GMT+7
              Aragon folks, dogecoin, bitcoin, peercoin folks
              crisis mappers, logistics, lawyers
              wise structural decisions, outreach, in person exchange
               I want to reach the unreached
              waking up at 3am to see the heist, was so cool to see something like that live.
              most of the infrastructure, i don't like. a lot of missed opportunity on the protocol side which i can't forgive. 
              lack of engineering capability
              onboarding and governing an open source community (status.im)
              there is no one thing, but a shared sense of values.
              open, free, and fair
              a dream of world with no cars and no wars :-), also a post-api paradigm where experiences are independent of browser or OS, hardware is more pervassive, and new like smart fabrics and ubiquitous computing.
              weakness in protocol layer, computing
              ultimately the universe is amoral with no clear guidance of direction, yet some endeavours are valuable to emancipate the human condition.
              please let's get   some of the hackathon projects into clear proceedural situations where they are edged forward 
              Joseph Pollack

            
              2018/05/30 11:01:20 AM GMT+7
              Dr. Christian Reitwiessner, Hudson, Vald
1. Really like Dr. Christian's presentation, it's clear and rich in content.
2. Husdon does really awesome work for coordination between the communities, this's not easy.
3. Vlad and Avsa, thanks for their valuable opinion and idea that keeps people thinking. 
              Democracy Earth
              Open/friendly/decentralization
              I really appreciate its value and work, also how Ethereum treat 
              Finally figure out the theory behind the Ethereum protocol. 
              The learning curve is high for the beginner. How do we speed up to get more people in?
              Too many documents and papers need to read and scammy ICO
              
              Contributer, open-minded 
              
              
              So far, no
              Do something useful and helpful for people

            
              2018/05/30 12:36:04 PM GMT+7

            
              2018/05/30 12:38:41 PM GMT+7
              Joey Krug, Vlad Zamfir, Richard Craib. 
              Hippies, burning man, cypherpunks
              Pragmatism. Things should be grounded in as objective fact as possible
              The complete paradigm shift of a global computer sounded amazing. I'm still here to see the awesome developments and community supporting all these projects.
              My blockchain startup getting acquired, because it shows this sort of stuff is actually sought after. 
              The OG DAO (sounds like a strain of marijuana).
              People caring about prices. I think people should care more about development. 
              Perhaps accessibility of resources for newcomers. 
              Transparent, honest, self motivated, team player. 
              Stoicism and Eastern thought
              Both global and planetary digital assets. 
              Cryptocurrencies giving rise to a new class of power
              Being in the state of flow. 
              
              Will Pankiewicz

            
              2018/05/30 1:16:14 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson: Openly answers questions via several platforms. Obviously ENS is awesome and his insights in that space are great.
Bevan Barton: making a product on the blockchain built around giving the world an alternative to our current broken social media platforms.
Vlad Zamfir: his pessimism/trolling humor is a little off-putting. His mind is probably in the right place. Not sure about his heart, does he have a heart?
Taylor Monahan: the go-getter attitude is awesome. The MyEtherWallet "scandal" aside - she get's people excited about being involved. Involvement is key.
jtnichol: positive figure and nice guy generally. Saves peoples life on a sem-regular basis. Has to deal with speculative side of crypto - and still manages to calm people down and focus back on fundamentals.
The Ethereum community is massive, there are probably hundreds or thousands of role-models and awesome individuals.
              Egalitarianism. Antiestablishmentarianism.
Innovation. Openness. Transparency. Disruption. Collaboration.
              Ambition. Respect. Honesty.
Ethereum need not limit itself - not for world leaders or for fear over abuse of its platform. Technology can/will always be used and misused. Ethereum offers too much promise to bow to the existing power structures of the world or the misunderstanding of the older generations usually in charge. They will feel threatened by an intrinsically useful asset capable of acting as currency. We should keep building. Replace what is broken.
Respect the thoughts and ideas of everyone enough to safeguard them all on chain. Respect future generations enough to start redistributing opportunities and global wealth that's currently locked in fait currencies building walls to protect incumbents and slow competition.
Be honest about what we think we can do and in what time frame. Be honest about the new issues the world will have to deal with if we are successful.
              The things that could be built on top of it. The potential to disrupt existing internet behemoths and incumbents across industries. The responsive involved development community.
In some ways Ethereum is a social movement with a native stateless currency. Everyone can participate. The slate wasn't empty - but the founding ideals seemed basically egalitarian and promising overall.
I'm still here because decentralization matters - it's probably (currently) the best shot we have to make the world a much better place in a relatively short amount of time. The Ethereum community is determined to innovate scaling without compromising decentralization. That's worth contributing to. That' worth being involved in.
              When I was investigating a dApp and used etherscan to analyze the transactions. The openness hits home when you have questions about how something works or what's going behind the scenes. Being able to explore, even in a rudimentary way, is powerful and very eye opening.
              UX - it's hard to get people to *use* the platform. Some of this is just because the concept is so new. We need native OS support for blockchain identities. We need a way to delegate accounts or have children accounts so that lost accounts could be recovered. New users are clumsy and the cost is high right now. It discourages people.
              Being worried about the next "Ethereum killer" - but that's generally in the trading part of the community. Tribalism - when Ethereum fans hate competition. Money is involved, people get a little radical.
At the end of the day there is an old way of doing things and a new way. Life before and after blockchains and public world wide computing platforms. Enemies of our enemies ... and all that jazz.
Let's not get distracted from fixing the world. Anyone trying to do that is on the same team.
              Funding understandable documentation and educational projects. This space is confusing for so many people - there are lots of community projects popping up to educate people, but we need to people to be focused on this full time.
I may be slightly biased, but I think this work is just as almost as important as developing the platform. People need to know about it, what to expect from it, how to use it --- AND WHY IT MATTERS. Or we're going to have a handful of people being in the know - and the rest of the world getting conned and thinking the legit stuff is a scam.
The Ethereum foundation needs writers, animators, videographers - all with access to the developers - to makes this stuff digestible. Get passionate people to educate, educate, educate.
P.S.
 If this happens, I want to be there. Will devote my life to that kind of work.
              A good community member is constantly learning. The breadth of the space is so vast - and the complexity can run so deep - there is never a shortage of things to learn. We need breadth and depth experts. We need explanations of the forest and the trees. Debate. Argue. Think. And then teach.
              When you see something that matters, get involved. If you can help someone, do so. If you can teach someone - even better.
The current system is broken. Get yourself in a position where you can have a reasonable chance at making a difference without losing your soul.
              One where open data will strip power from closed companies. People will use blockchains to verify myriad facts and events. Timestamps/block numbers/signatures will all matter. People will slowly begin to wrap their heads around them.
Collaboration will lead to greater network effect advantages for those choosing to build products and services collaboratively rather than in a traditional business model. Disruption everywhere. Less need for skyscrapers. More people at home. More gigs - less rent seeking.
Currency will be a personal choice rather than something forced on people by a state. You can divest from networks or ideals as your philosophy evolves. Things that were big and hierarchical will become small, nimble, and connected.
              We can't have a tiny group of people making decisions that effect the entire network (and the world, if all goes well). Thought leaders are also dangerous - if they are how the public sees a project.
We need more grants for more public faces of Ethereum. Local faces. Faces from all walks of life and all over the world. Not just the handful of developers that are making things possible. May they never be corrupted, in the meantime.
              Decentralized food - gardening, farming. Decentralized thought - writing, blogging. Learning. Thinking. Information flowing fast. Disruption. Giving people opportunities.
Why? What else is there?
              Good initiative here. Let me know if there's any way I can help. CallMeGwei.com
              CallMeGwei

            
              2018/05/30 3:36:18 PM GMT+7
              Heiko Hees (he's my boss and has been in the space from the beginning. Furthermore he does a lot of important work without getting his face everywhere on some, which I admire, because he cares about the tech and not the fame). AVSA (He has a lot of important and good ideas mainly focused on making Ethereum better and has been around for a long time). Jordi (white hat guy, all around good guy, using Ethereum for the greater good)
              Trustlines, Copenhagen Ethereum Meetup Group, Giveth
              Freedom of speech, equal rights, fair monetary system. Anti-corruption. All of these are things that Ethereum is perfect for and I think it's important that this is the goal of applications being developed. Either to improve on the tech making it possible or build dApps that implement these systems.
              Originally the tech, then I stayed around because of the potential that I believe this tech has to change the world.
              Devcon1, I think. Where I got introduced in person to all the cool people who build Ethereum from scratch for the first time.
              Tough question. I am mainly frustrated  by the fact that there are so many scammers around that try to take advantage of the traction that Ethereum has and tried to exploit new people interested in the eco system.
              Also all the scams just mentioned
              Not per say. I think some projects are forgetting why we are building an eco system around Ethereum sometimes, and focus more on talking bad about their competitors or something like that to put themselves in a better light. This is a failure to me, since we should all work towards improving Ethereum and its ecosystem.
              Someone who cares about the tech, actively participate in different discussions on reddit etc., and who helps out new people to learn how the tech works.
              I do most of what I do hoping it will affect and help the greater good. I believe that the person who has the ability to do something, also has the duty to do it. 
              I envision a future where big financial infrastructure is run on Ethereum (hopefully using Raiden) and we have a much more fair governance structure in place everywhere, also run on the blockchain and providing a lot of transparency to deal with corruption.
              Different kinds of legislation could become big set back, but all in all I am positive.
              Helping other people and building stuff I believe will revolutionize the world
              
              Jacob Czepluch

            
              2018/05/30 4:30:22 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson (for being a voice of reason, and dedicated to infrastructure development) , Vlad Zamfir (for being openly critical and skeptical of Ethereum), Joseph Poon (friendly)
              GiveDirectly, MakerDao, 0xProject, Freedom, Libertarianism, Self-governance
              Openness to new ideas, new people, new experimentation
              
              The day I quit my job and started working for myself on an Ethereum related project full time, and realised I was in control of my future
              Handling of Parity multisig hack - and lack of recovery of funds for smaller members of the community. For example those that sent funds to 0x0 address. It is easy to determine which were sent by contracts vs which were sent by sovereign addresses, and therefore also to see which were mistakes. If we consider larger hack recoveries we should have a generalised process for everyone.
              Slow, slow, slow governance and leadership. I know that it is part of what also makes Ethereum great, but for example - ERC20 standard for tokens. Clearly the token standard is not the best, and could be improved upon. However it requires championship and agreement on a new one to make that happen. Ethereum currently does not seem to be able to take action on things like that.
              Encouraging people to focus onto infrastructure projects instead of their own ICO or application layer project.
              
              
              Honestly - a very pessimistic one for human society, but I believe there will be microcosms of freedom and liberty which survive and thrive, and Ethereum can play a role in protecting those.
              
              New experience

            
              2018/05/30 5:55:48 PM GMT+7
              Jarrad Hope, Luis Cuende, Gavin Wood, Hudson Jameson, Mihai Alisie, Alex van de Sande,....
              Status, Aragon, Akasha, MakerDAO, Swarm
              Governance, Simplicity, Freedom, Higher degree of privacy, Incentivization
              Smart Contracts
              ICO frenzy because now everyone can easily achieve a business or dreams, no need to go borrow money from the bank, find institutional investors or VC (I mean small amounts that people need like 10K to 100K not millions like the ICOs we usually see)
              hard fork
              Yes, only small group of people deciding for whole ethereum ecosystem
              
              He will do everything he can :) , according to his means and understanding, we do not all have the same qualifications, educate himself and others, share (sharing is caring), participate, organize meetups and events, staking, etc...
              Honesty, Courtesy, Spirituality, Sincerity, Accessibility, Accomplishment, Completion, Agility, Team work, Peace, Flexibility, Availability, Cooperation, Consciousness...
              Blockchain everywhere we can use but not cashless society
              Centralization and Cashless Society (Film In Time Out Justin Timberlake) :)
              My spiritual evolution, my freedom and the opportunity helping others to achieve their goals. Because it makes me also happy to help people... As a result, I have evolved an understanding of life’s purpose and a world view that has changed my life for the better and guides and nourishes me each and every day...
              
              Kemal Gürsoy

            
              2018/05/30 6:55:50 PM GMT+7
              McGee, Rfikki, LefterisJP
              Loom, Safecommerce, Truffle
              Transparency, Accessibility, Immutability, Decentralization
              Ethos
              Testnet
              The DAO
              Centralization / Whales and Devs that have too much undue influence
              Insiders have the ability to slant things in their favor
              Someone that is engaged
              Treat others as you want to be treated
              Opportunity for effort
              Governance by selected few
              Happiness

            
              2018/05/30 10:45:32 PM GMT+7
              Christian Reitwiessner for the maintance of Solidity, the work in zkSnarks, and the low noise hard work profile. Péter Szilágyi for his incredible work in the geth client specially in the Shanghai Attacks, Taylor Monahan for the big support to the newbies to the community.  Of course there are many other people in the space that are role models.
              Libertarism, Liberalism.
              decentralization, reserch, development, community, technology
              I was attracted for how easy was to write smart contracts, and I'm still there for the technical potential of the technology and the amazing community around it
              I have many, but I want to mention 2. One when the return of the ETC from the DAO, after a bad move in our side and a lot of critics in the media, we received an affective support from many important people from the community.  And the second one was during the first parity hack.  After a week of working hard to return the Ether and having a big pressure, in a regular call we received just a song from Greg. That song just made my head to slow down, take some perspective on the situation and recover a lot of energy for continue the work and return all the funds during the next week. Those moments are unforgettable and they will be with me for the rest of my live.
              Sure, many, but it's so easy to analyse the past...
              Trolling, (very different to criticism)
              Yes, many.  But I'm more worried in how to find solutions to that possible fails.
              The same that in any community. Just thing in how you can help the other members individually and to the community as a whole!
              Integrity, hard work, open mind, teach what you know, be nice,  be rational, make a better world.
              I see a world of free people where they are happy mainly because they made other people happy.
              Actual big centralised powers in the world, like corrupt governments, big corporations,  banks, ...
              I'm a privileged person that have an opportunity to take a technology that just was born and use it in real cases to make people more free and so more happy. 
              
              Jordi Baylina

            
              2018/05/30 11:16:50 PM GMT+7
              1.) Emin Gun Sirer and Phil Daian (combining them because they're both Cornell dudes). They keep the spirit of respectful, academic discourse and science-based research alive and thriving. 2.) Alex Miller with Grid+. His constant, well thought-out contributions to the scaling discussions underscore the point that successful DApp development don't just benefit the individual projects; they can benefit the entire ecosystem. 3.) Bob Summerwill, and his constant positive contributions to making Ethereum (and crypto) a fun, friendly place. 4.) DeviateFish on Reddit. His tendency to dissent from the majority opinion using logical arguments is beneficial to avoiding groupthink in our community.
              The EFF comes to mind. This is an interesting question...I'll have to do some more thinking on it.
              1.) Empowerment of the individual. No longer will we have to placate gatekeepers. As Cryptokitties has shown, if you build a great app, users will beat a path to your door. 2.) Academic and science-based discourse. Bitcoin is a cautionary tale here; the community abandoned this for vitriol-infused battles, with massive negative implications for their ecosystem and platform. 3.) Friendliness and openness. It's important to maintain the fun, friendly vibe that's always been present in Ethereum. This is especially true with respect to maintaining and attracting developers to the platform. 4.) Letting your freak flag fly. We need to keep Ethereum weird. This is a place where self-expression should reign; the resulting creativity is liberating!
              The promise to build a better Bitcoin initially attracted me, along with Vitalik's prior track record as an eloquent advocate for crypto. I'm still here because the platform and ecosystem have wildly succeeded on all counts. The thriving community is a testament to this - as is the network itself, which far outpaces other crypto platforms in terms of transaction throughput and capabilities.
              Hard to pick out just one, but a few include: hosting the ETHDENVER hackathon and watching hundreds of developers utterly geek out and have the time of their lives for a weekend; watching ETH break $100 and thinking "wow this is really happening"; watching the first Frontier block happen; having my mind blown by all the creative and brilliant minds at Devcon 2 in Shanghai, and realizing the tech was far along enough to warrant a career jump into blockchain 24/7.
              Nothing jumps to mind here.
              The growing crowd of Ethereum Maximalists. Let's not repeat the same mistakes made by our Bitcoin brethren.
              While not "failing," I feel that the Ethereum Foundation needs to become increasingly decentralized and transparent. This could take the form of adding more contributors, more articles about what is being worked on, and so on. We want to avoid the perception that decisions and meaningful work is happening in the proverbial smoke-filled room.
              Someone who actively participates. This can take many forms, such as developing a DApp, educating others, running nodes, lending their thoughts and expertise to important discussions around topics such as governance and scaling, going to meetups, hackathons, and conferences, and generally moving the ecosystem forward. All while being respectful to others.
              1.) Be cool to people. 2.) Be real and genuine. 3.) Ignore people who suck time and energy from your life. 4.) Think positive.
              A world where blockchain technology encourages people to transact and interact with one another without interference from centralized entities, where free thought and exchange dominates. A world where ignorance and bigotry dies out, and humanity is reaching toward the stars rather than fighting with one another.  
              I worry that governance issues could rear their head in the future, leading to community division a la Bitcoin. That's why it's so crucial we maintain those core values I outlined above. I also worry that the technology won't scale adequately - but if I had to guess, I'd say there's only a 25% probability that will be the case. I also worry that constant attacks against Vitalik are making him saltier by the month. I hope he doesn't adopt the same kind of discourse that many Bitcoiners use.
              The ability to work on a technology that can make the world a freer, better place, by breaking down artificial divisions that centralized powers have created or perpetuated in order to further their own objectives. I believe the default setting for humanity is "unity," and IMO blockchain technology in general (and Ethereum in particular) is one of the best ways to achieve this.
              I keep coming back to this thought that blockchain could be a societal movement, rather than just a technological thing. Ethereum in particular seems well-positioned to make that happen. We need to add more culture to this community, in the form of art and music. We need to push forward collectively to make the world a better place.
              Kent Barton - Ethereum Denver - @seven7hwave

            
              2018/05/30 11:29:07 PM GMT+7
              Jarrad/Carl (staunch for decentralization and leadership), Brian Armstrong (he wants to take decentralization to the masses), Jutta Steiner (very kind and tech focused), Nate Rush (shows how much you can achieve when you put your head down to learn and work)
              evangelical Christianity (very decentralized, plus historically the Church has grown through forking), anarchocapitalists (I'm not one),
              Kind, tech focused, don't take ourselves too seriously, pragmatically increasing the decentralization in society
              in late 2013, it was obvious that it was *the* useful application of blockchain.  i'm still here because decentralization is what society needs
              writing something i felt very uncertain about and getting positivity from the community
              there's a million things about the past.  right now, everyone should understand that this is nascent tech
              it's frustrating when certain people make excuses for bad actors
              decentralization means we struggle to exclude bad actors.
              reflects the right values.  tries to find a need and then fulfills it.
              be more like Jesus
              non-linear (and occasionally zero?) growth towards decentralization 
              i fear failure, but if it happens i bet it will be because of personal conflicts/strife not because of tech limitations
              following Jesus.  family.
              we need to do better reaching non-english speakers

            
              2018/05/31 12:26:12 AM GMT+7
              Gavin Wood - Julian Zawistowski - Jorge Izquierdo : I admire their determination, their sympathy with social issues, and their novel ideas to restructure societies and organizations. 
              heterogeneity, epicureanism (for the indulgent, unapologetic enjoyment that the community transmits from time to time), platonism (for the validation of the existence of abstract objects) and some hints of liberalism, yet it's also a bit of socialism.. (can we just use a new name and not classify ourselves into an ideology)
              Equality - inclusion - truth
              Came for the revolution and the promise of a new world order without corruption, stayed for the wonderful helpful community and the promising technology.
              Ethereum has helped me gain recognition for my skills, something that was always hard for me. The diverse community makes everyone an outcast so we all get along. Every time I get to share with the rest of the community, is happier than the other. 
              Yes, EIP-999, and the confusion with the founders/co-founders and power struggles pre-Aya. 
              The endless ancient greek like discussions with little pragmatism around governanance
              G O V E R N A N C E 
              Lack of personal agendas
              Fairness, self-respect and open-mindedness 
              A future where we are able to fix the broken institutions with our technology stack
              PoS corruption in mining pools 
              Being able to be in the space where we are really able to change stuff in the world that has bugged me all my life. 
              This is a really nice survey, thanks Jarrad and the rest of the incredible status team

            
              2018/05/31 2:50:19 AM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, very focused on technical discussion and keeping discussions on topic while avoiding getting too worked up about governance. Joseph Poon, very likeable person with influencial ideas in the space. Péter Szilágyi - what a work horse.
              
              Open discussion. Inclusive community. Honest feedback.
              An improvement over bitcoin. Interested to see how ethereum can impact financial systems. One of my favorite projects right now is MakerDAO, which shows exactly how tokenized assets can be leveraged by the layperson in order to build wealth and have access to the same financial tools that more wealthy have access to.
              
              Media portrayal. I wish things in the whole blockchain space would be less tribal. Greed causes all these coins to branch off and try and create their own wealth at the expense of the community. It's hard to keep track of all the technological development going on especially with so many people who start their own "ETH Killer" competitors which may have valid ideas but fracture the dev community.
              tribalism. greed.
              the foundation needs to have more project structure. dev calls kind of wind around topics, timelines are not very heavily enforced. some projects (Mist) seem to be floundering around and should no longer be officially promoted by the foundation unless they want to put something out that is more presentable
              someone who engages in discussion around governance, tests out github code, and contributes to the project
              dont be a dick when you don't need to be
              optimistic: technology overcomes the current problems relating to large industries controlling wealth, media, property ownership. pessimistic: the divide only gets worse and all those that are not super wealthy suffer
              the pessimistic future
              My life

            
              2018/05/31 2:55:42 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir – Always cautious about the negative externalities of the blockchain technology and always willing to be vocal about them as well. This takes courage.
Joseph Lubin – (Disclaimer, I've worked at ConsenSys since 2015) Joe is incredibly calm, cool, collected, and open minded. He's built ConsenSys to be an organization spanning the globe and is insistent on bringing on different point of views and mind sets into the Mesh
Yoichi Hirai – I am a big admirer of Yoichi. His blog posts are deeply technical, but his character shines through. He stands up for what he believes in and advocates for doing the right thing.
There are many, many more, of course, but these three were the first to mind.
              I reckon these are meant to be non-blockchain related?
The GNU Free Software movement – https://www.gnu.org/
Creative Commons – https://creativecommons.org/
The above come to mind. This idea that content and code can be free (and still monetizable) I think fit very well with the Ethereum ethos. 
              Openness and inclusivity. Blockchain technology has a duality to it. In order for the blockchain to enable long term, positive change, it must retain properties of immutability, censorship resistance and decentralization. These properties can just as quickly become tools of coercive force and violence.
So ethereum should maintain the ethos of openness while doing the work to include diverse perspectives.
              The believe that this technology will change the world. The realization that this technology will change the world. 
              I remember being incredibly happy at EthWaterloo. Part of it was nostalgic (I'm an Honours Computer Science graduate from Waterloo) but part of it was a realization that the Ethereum community is filled with such passionate people hoping to make difference in the world.
              I think I remember tweeting at the end of DevCon II that there wasn't enough diversity at the Eth Foundation. Besides Ming (at the time) I think there was only one other woman in the group photo. 
I think some of the ICO fraud is a total bummer. 
              ICO frauds. The twitter trolling. 
              Hmmm… channelling Vlad a little bit – it's sort of crazy to me that the valuation of crypto is so high and that Ether is trading at $550. Don't get me wrong – this opens a lot of doors to bring more investment in to the ecosystem, but I do think there is a sense that outsiders may think that the technology is more production hardened than it actually is. 
I also think that some of the technical design decisions don't necessarily take into account end user experience very much. In August 2015 the community actually believed that it would be "one user, one blockchain" – as if end users would actually be running a geth node in the background to access their dapps. Thinking of this now, it seems pretty naive, but back then it was a prevalent thought. 
              Someone who likes to build, who doesn't accept the status quo of where we are now. Someone who actively creates new experiences in order to expand the state of the art rather than waiting for innovation to come to them.
              Be kind, work hard.
              I'm writing about it in Cellarius 2084 ;) I'd love for the Ethereum ecosystem to commission works of art that describe the future they want to see.
              Much of the blockchain ecosystem has showcased the worst traits of our human desires: greed, envy, freeloading, exploitation, tribalism and constant spreading of misinformation. I don't think this is true of all humanity, or all of human societies. But a lot of negativity exists in this world. How we can use this tech to make the world a better place is something that we should always be mindful of. Of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions and so it's a delicate balance.
              Human experiences. I'm a technologist. I've used computers since I can remember and I've been in the software industry for over a decade. I love technology. But at the end of the day technology is a tool for bringing humans together. Our most important moments come from human to human interactions and it can be easy to lose sight of that from time to time. 
              Some of my responses were taking from my open letter to web3 (https://www.openletterstotheweb3.com/). I'd like to plug Cellarius once again (https://cellarius.network) – my motivation for this project is to give a platform for futurists and optimists to paint the picture that they want to see of the world ; and I think the ethos of the Ethereum community is something worth spreading to make the world a better place.
              Igor Lilic

            
              2018/05/31 4:23:21 AM GMT+7
              Igor Lilic.  He's a friend first, and a co-worker second.  He's always been clear and measured in the information he provides me with and will often refer me to primary text, concepts, or ideas as opposed to his flat out opinion.
Kim Tamayo.  She's worked in the Crypto world for much longer than me and has seen the many changes that take place in terms of how people and organizations operate/change under such a structure.
              In terms of open information and open access, there are lots of organizations or perspectives that I think are aligned with Ethereum.  Wikipedia, Southern Poverty Law Center, Public schools etc.
              Open information and open access.  If the blockchain is private, then it doesn't meet the required criteria for a Blockchain.  It's some derivative implementation like a private distributed ledger system.
              The idea of challenging, changing, and improving legacy financial systems.  I'm still here because there's more work to do.
              The conversation I had in a bar late one night with a friend who talked to me about the technology on my level and was patient enough to answer my many questions.  It was impressive because the information was life-changing and the conversation was built on a foundation of love, respect, and optimism.  I was being engaged because the value of this technology was seen as intimately tied to my participation, not to simply using me as a utility.
              I think that when people spend a lot of money trying to avoid paying taxes by going to Puerto Rico, I find it to be blatantly racist, exploitative, and a vestige of legacy financial structures.  There isn't a sentimentality or set of operations behind such behavior that involves actually using one's wealth to improve the lives of all who are impacted you, with an emphasis being on those who are tremendously exploited.
              Systemic inequity and baseline apathy
              I'm not sure yet.  Who is "we"?  Am I included in that?  What's our shared goal or purpose?
              Someone who listens and will think critically
              Radical transparency, love, balance, humility, ego death
              One in which this technology is accessible and where the concept of wealth is turned on its head
              I'm worried that we will keep the efficient aspect of this technology to ourselves and make slaves out of others because they were not "responsible","didn't work hard enough" or some other meritocratic nonsense that absconds us from accountability.
              
              
              Gregory

            
              2018/05/31 4:42:17 AM GMT+7
              Joseph Lubin, Dan Finlay, chriseth
              Anarcho-capitalism, ConsenSys,
              liberation, self-sovereign identity on a decentralized application platform
              decentralization, job
              first dapp contract confirmed; it worked
              gasPrices are too high, often
              /r/ethtrader graph interpretations
              fees, adoption
              a software engineer
              justice, utilitarianism
              ancapistan
              EOS
              my cat; she's happy to see me

            
              2018/05/31 5:22:46 AM GMT+7
              Joseph Poon, Dan Robinson, Nadav Hollander
              anarchism,  game design, economics
              open innovation and unbounded exploration of ideas
              The possibility for individuals to live free financial lives
              Discovering and using my first Dapp - I'd not realized how much progress had been made towards usability then, and I was very happily surprised.
              I wish people were more honest/open about the fact that non-voluntary regulation is practically impossible in open source. There's too much discussion of how to best capitulate to or help old-world regulations/regulators. We should be actively building a world where they're replaced by software that is better for society, not pandering to them.
              fincen
              usability 
              someone who feels personal freedom to build whatever they want with whomever they want and encourages others to do the same
              voluntarism, respect for individuals, nurture of humans through community
              one without borders

            
              2018/05/31 6:28:30 AM GMT+7
              Alex Van de Sande: hard work, hype-insensitivity, outsider (end-user) perspective
Taylor Van Orden / Monahan: relentless stress on user experience, extremely hard work, entrepreneurial spirit
Jutta Steiner: ability to steer her team in adversarial circumstances, looking for shared interest rather than conflict
Joe Lubin: has saved the Ethereum project a few times, works in background as an enabler for other people, although everyone knows how instrumental he is.
Jeff Coleman: long term vision, long term ideological motivation (as former Pirate Party activist)

              As most people come from that space, I think Ethereum has inherited a lot from the Web developer culture, especially Python community (fostering inclusion, creativity, free markets of ideas).
Obviously Ethereum grew out of  Bitcoin, so libertarianism, stress on meritocracy are still very much alive.
Local currency/community currency movement is a big inspiration too.
              Freedom to experiment.
Absence of dogma.
Respect for and genuine interest in other communities.

              The possibilities.
The possibilities + the culture.
              Devcon1, London.
Meeting the entire community in real life, back when no one was there for the price.

              Solutionism.
              Solutionism.
              I miss /r/ethereum - it no longer seems the place to be, the online community seems to be fractured.
              Someone with an open mind.
              I try to be curious and open for new ideas.
              I take one day at a time...
              
              - Asking questions.  
- Trying to help people to realise their dreams
              
              Pascal (community member Netherlands)

            
              2018/05/31 6:33:46 AM GMT+7
              Piper -- He speaks his mind, has well formed opinions, and get's shit done.
Nick Johnson -- Has an excellent command of the protocol, constantly contributes to eips and the discussion, and frequently contributes back to the community and to up and coming devs.

              EFF, tor foundation
              
              
              
              
              lambo talk on r/ethtrader
              deploying capital to work on open source and scaling. EF and the excessively funded ICOs should be deploying capital to build out tooling and to work on scaling. There has been more movement in the past few months, but more capital should have been deployed last year.
Also education and defining the value proposition of a truly decentralized system that doesn't cut corners to scale.
              Open source contributor. Everyone should be contributing. Even if it's just fixing typos, writing tutorials, etc. 
              Openness.
              I envision a terrifying future in which a few people run AIs, the government, and the bulk of the economic system. Decentralized technologies are likely the only solution.
              the unknown
              being outside. screen time drains the brain.
              
              djrtwo

            
              2018/05/31 6:54:50 AM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson - He's active in engaging new developers to the community, and I see him take action where there are gaps. Aya Miyaguchi - She drives so much improvement and is super humble about it. Alex Miller - His work with Grid+ is pushing boundaries, and he's written a lot of great material. Hudson James - He's really articulate in the explanation of why decisions are made, and I constantly see him helping other people. Greg Colvin - Met him once, had no idea who he was or what work he had done for Ethereum, but he's awesome. And I like that he's actively engaging others in the community through the magicians thing.

              "Loosely" makes me think you want organizations that haven't like full voiced 100% support for Ethereum but are similar or would seem favorable...? I would say things in education, microfinancing or movements against dictators. But nothing on the socialist side of things -- in my mind, the goal is not a universal basic income (because I've worked in too many places with too many different people to be convinced of practically there) but equality of opportunity. 
              Humility. Willing to give up something good now for something better later -- not short sighted, future focused. Building what should be, not just what could be. What "should be" isn't determined by what's best for few "disadvantaged" people in the short run but what's best for all people in the long run. Holds people accountable. Not self-serving. Has the courage to tell stakeholders the truth, not just what the want to hear. 
              The opportunity to learn and build on it as an open souce project. I wasn't an overnight convert -- the more reading and study, the more I have been drawn in. I'm still here because there is still work to be done and things to be built! And this is an incredible community to work with. 
              Will try not to make this a long story, but I quit my job last summer. With no developer experience, I decided I wanted to become a Solidity dev. Through a lot of study, I've actually been fortunate enough to land a job a solidity dev now -- working alongside much smarter solidity devs that I continue to learn from. But one of the happiest memories I have is from explaining Ethereum to my dad and seeing him light up with the same enthusiasm and excitement that I had in the power Ethereum has to change the world for good. My dad's built a strong business over the course of thirty plus years -- he broke off from his previous company in light of some ethical issues (and ambition of course, to be fair). Even as a cancer patient (now cancer survivor), I saw him actively participate in work, not resentfully because he felt like he had to, but because he wanted to and truly loves what he does and what he's helped to build and the people in it.  Ethereum's full of brilliant people, but I'd still have to say having that validation from him was better than any other I can think of. 
              It's hard to be frustrated when I see things being actively improved and worked on. Frustration is not the right word -- I just see that there's more opportunity to pick up in some arenas. If I have to pick one instance that I wasn't fond of, it was the April Fools 'joke' of an Ether limit, it just felt like a distraction at the moment and not a priority. I don't mind discussing the parity multi-sig hack recovery topic, but I also think there should be more urgency placed on making those decisions because the argument can go in circles forever. 
              Self promotion and opinion pieces without detail or reasoning. 
              Clarity. Not in the sense that information is being withheld, sometimes its just a bit disorganized. 
              Honesty, integrity and the desire to learn and give over the desire to take. 
              Off the top of my head...
* Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone. 
* Don't exchange something good now for something better later. 
* It's not experience that makes you wiser but evaluated experience. 
* Greed is the most difficult vice to see in yourself, so make a habit of being generous not just occasions. 
* A good friend tells you want you need to hear, not just what you want to hear. 
* You cannot take credit for all your success - we no more got to choose the century in which we were born than our abilities, talents, and people that come into our lives. In other words, success is a summation of a lot of factors that you cannot control. But that does not mean you should give up or not pursue something. 
              What I would like to see is one that is more legacy and purpose-driven. What I envision realistically happening is challenges continuing to arise - - I don't see Ethereum or the community "giving up" but I do see a danger in becoming disillusioned with reality sometimes. 
              My biggest fear for Ethereum is nation states driving their own agenda on a different 'public' blockchain or some kind of scenario like that. 
              This question is way too deep for me to answer in a survey, haha. So I'll just quote C.S. Lewis,"“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
              Thanks for hosting this survey, just the mere existence of it makes me all the more excited and convicted in the work within the Ethereum Community.

            
              2018/05/31 10:15:12 AM GMT+7
              - Nick Johnson because holy shit does is he not the most productive motherfucker I have ever met, always has an great attitude, works magic on bringing people and disparate ideas together, isn’t scared of shit, and doesn't let the trolls win.
- Griff Green because he's huggy, happy, collaborative, rises above the drama, knows everyone, and knows who to contact when shit goes wrong. He is the universal solution not because he has the answer but because he knows who has the answer and knows how to get a hold of them.
- Bob Summerwill because he's so collaborative and so focused on bringing people together right now and does so publicly and it personally inspires me.
              This is a hard question. A lot of people have said big open source projects like Linux but I don't know enough about that culture / ecosystem to comment. There are certainly things to be learned from big, old-school conglomerates and down-and-dirty listserv communities. I think that knowledge and inspiration and wisdom can often come from unexpected places.
              It should embody the potential. It should be the basis, the foundation, the starting point. It shouldn't be the end or the solution, but simply the thing that enables and empowers other things to be created and others to create the things. Things like dapps and communities and things that change the world.
              The idea of being able to create meaningful things that slowly change the world around us and re-distributed the power.
              Probably back when it hit like $2.50. We lost our shit. We joked about being on the way to huge parties on boats. I remember it because of the price and price talk (which is ironic as fuck, but hear me out). 
The attitude and atmosphere wasn't actually about the price. We didn't sell at $2.50 or even $10. It was never about the money. When ETH hit $2.50, for us at least, it was about a wider group of people realizing the potential. It was about those who were already part of the Ethereum community seeing things come together and clicking into place. The vision and our imaginations were slowing becoming reality. Geth was way more stable. Mist had launched. MEW was working well. The Ethereum StackExchange had been approved for the next stage of whatever. People were helping each other across reddit and stackexchange and were really, really eager to build. Everyone was joining the DAO slack and talking about the potential of decentralized organizations.
That is when I think I realized that the sky was the limit and we had the ability to shape the future and the world.
              The DAO Slack was this thing—this almighty thing that everyone joined. There was nothing else really going on. And it generated such community and excitement. But then came the next Slack...and the next Slack....and the next. Then came the scammers. Today we have such disparate communities spread across Slack, Telegram, Discord, Riot, Reddit, etc. etc. etc. It's hard to keep track of things and be part of something. The community that formed in the early days is torn up and the existing forums (reddit) are overrun by people obsessed with the price, people trying to scam each other, etc. I feel like we've lost our values, or at least lost sharing our values with the larger world. It's disappointing to not be able to tell a tech-savvy, crypto-interested person to go to Reddit anymore. It's hard to say "follow awesome people on twitter" or "find sweet communities on Telegram" with a straight face. My favorite communities are random working groups that are goal-focused (e.g. the anti-phishing workgroup) rather than project focused. I wish more people from different communities would come together to accomplish things instead of these token/price focused communities. I understand that when you have a token and a project you want to create a community around that token/project but over time we have lost the community around Ethereum at its core. 

              Price talk. Token talk. ICO talk. Scams. Unnecessary competition. Not working together better. Trolls. Going on reddit. Literally. I'm a fucking reddit moderator and opening reddit exhausts me these days. It's so sad. It used to invigorate me to talk and connect with random people but these days theres so much hate. And not hate as in questioning projects or questioning why something is or isn't a certain way, but just straight hate and ulterior motives. 
              I'm not sure who "we" is so I'll preface this by saying that I'm interpreting this as a collective "we"—a we that is all of those who are interested in the potential of Ethereum.
I think the biggest shift in the Ethereum community was, as is with most small communities, that a large group of people who didn't share the same values as the original set of people appeared. This second group of people quickly overran the first group of people and set the tone for what an outsider sees Ethereum as. This perpetuates indefinitely. 
Interpret that as you may, based on your personal experience. The reddit mentality shifted. People appeared solely to grab cash during ICO madness. Things like that.
The first, smaller group of folks failed though. We didn't continue speaking up and being vocal and sharing our values (vocally) day in and day out. Instead, we retreated to the smaller, safer havens where we knew one another. Maybe that was random Skype groups or one-on-one conversations or simply hanging out with our own team more instead of in public on reddit. I am guilty as well and I regret not doing my part to actively set a good example for the community I wanted to see and instead chose to bitch about it (and am still bitching about it, apparently).
How do we encourage an ecosystem that is collaborative and accepting. Where new people can understand what we are trying to build and contribute with that mindset. Where they can find their own space in the ecosystem and contribute to it as well?
              Someone who looks out for the bigger goals and values of the ecosystem. Someone who protects the people. Someone who doesn't let drama get to them. Someone who sees the big pictures and stays focused on it. Someone who can engage in debate—hardcore, passionate debate—without stooping to personal attacks. Someone who cares...like really fucking cares. Someone who asks the right questions. Someone who knows how little they know. Someone who empowers people around them to be the best versions of themselves. Someone who can explain things and make things understandable. Someone who has a strong moral compass. Someone who doesn't care about price or money. Someone who hugs and brings people together. Someone who has time to spend on the people around them. Someone who wants to be better each and every day. Someone who gracefully reminds us all to be our best selves.
              I know nothing. Literally. Nothing.
Questioning myself and why I am a certain way. 
Being brutally honest with myself and being okay with that fact I know nothing and am nothing in the grand scheme of things. 
Questioning & judging myself:
Is this the best thing for Ethereum, or the best thing for my project? 
Am I saying this because I’m selfish or because it’s the best thing for Ethereum?
Is this decision arbitrary?
What am I not seeing?
What am I optimizing for?
Does it really matter?
How can I prevent ____ from happening again?
Why did I not see ____ coming?
Do the people I care about and value most know that I value and care about them?
              One where there are more people communicating and building together better. One where people are contributing valuable insights from their unique experiences and insights and backgrounds. One where the group as a whole is stronger than its individual parts. One where people feel empowered. One where healthy debate and questioning is encouraged.
              I think that sometimes we forget that it's okay not to try to re-invent every little thing. It's okay to learn from those who came and built before us—even if that means taking advice from centralized banks or some shit. We don't have to necessarily reinvent organizational structure and the financial system and the communication tools or best practices. Sometimes it's best to disrupt one thing at a time. 😉
              Feeling that I create / provide value to the people around me. Whether that's simply making someone's day better by complimenting them or empowering them to do something they didn't think they were able to do or whatever. 
              Don't judge me too harshly on the above. I dumped my brain on the page and I'm not going to scroll up and revise. Also, I love you for doing this. Thank you. 💖
              Taylor Monahan

            
              2018/05/31 3:08:42 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson, Vlad Zamfir, and Ashley Tyson. Nick is rational, impartial, and diplomatic, Vlad is outspoken, intelligent, and fearless, and Ashley is critical, fiercely ethical, yet also kind.
              Left wing accelerationism, Kawaii culture, and Google.  
              Decentralization should be the only enforced value, both on a network and a social level. I firmly believe nothing else should be stipulated. From there, further value-driven ecosystems can be formed, but they should be strictly opt-in.
              I liked the philosophical vision of the yellow paper. I'm now here because I work here.
              Being treated kindly by the community at EDCON, despite nervousness that it would go the other way.
              Yes, I have been treated badly by members of the community online, this isn't unique to ethereum though, every crypto community has assholes. There's a real arrogance in this space sometimes.
              See above. While the community has a genuine gentleness at times, it can also be vicious. I think this is the influence of the markets, and the toxic intimacy that market logics support, binding stakeholders together.
              Decentralization needs more work.
              A community member that is open to criticism and accepting of others.
              N/A. I stay flexible, adapt to changes as they come, and change my mind about difficult questions regularly.
              I believe it's possible that like bitcoin, ethereum will reach a point where it can no longer introduce code changes. At this point, it will be down to new projects to evolve the vision. Ethereum will have been an important stepping stone.
              I am deeply afraid that ethereum is complicit in advancing a paradigm of absolute, reckless transparency, that could very quickly lead to mass social dictatorship and control.
              Consciousness is a cosmic blip that will be quickly subsumed into chaos. I don't need meaning.

            
              2018/05/31 3:34:56 PM GMT+7
              Nick Johnson - the pragmatic voice of reason in most discussions; Joe Lubin - immense vision, immense wisdom; Yoichi Hirai - strongly principled.
              Ethereum Foundation; ConsenSys; Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
              Transparency, integrity, ambition, decentralisation.
              The promise of rapid innovation and world-transforming technology.
              
              Pace of innovation has slowed to almost a dead stop. Essentially zero protocol innovations between Homestead and Byzantium (>1.5 years). This is not what I hoped for when I got on board: PoS, Swarm, sharding...
              reddit.com/r/ethereum
              Continuing to deliver protocol innovation (see above).
              A smart, proactive, humble, wise consensus builder who gets things done.
              
              
              There's a serious danger of being overtaken if protocol development does not pick up.
              
              
              Ben Edgington

            
              2018/05/31 3:39:03 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir: a trolly contrarian outlook on Ethereum and it's governance, an acknowledgement of the social and ethical implications of what we're building.
Alex Van de Sande: Generally an individual of sound logic and morals, shares thoughtful and intelligent opinions on issues of the moment.
Joseph Lubin: a pragmatic outlook on deploying Ethereum into all contexts, not just those whose political views we believe in (i.e. not ignoring large banks or institutions)
              EEA: The large enterprises building on Ethereum
Crypto Anarchy

              Openness - always being open to letting in new people to the community
Pragmatism- make decisions based on all evidence and facts rather than ideological leanings

              Ethereum had the best, most open minded and pragmatic people. I'm still here because all the devs are building on Ethereum.
              Deploying a smart contract to main net, having 3rd party (unknown) users interact and get value from using it.
              Lack of interest from auxiliary parties (exchanges? casual users?) from participating in governance
              Increasing ideological leanings and decisions. People who believe Ethereum is any single thing instead of everything.
              Impartiality in governance. 
              Someone who understands not only how ethereum works, but the implications of various design decisions. 
              The golden rule. Err on the side of kindness. Assume you don't know. Strong opinions loosely held.
              Efficient markets
              Ethereum becomes too ideological, governance usurped by special interests, people creating methods for on-chain rollbacks which are later misused to the chagrin of Ethereum developers.
              Improving the lives of individuals around the world.

            
              2018/05/31 4:05:45 PM GMT+7
              Christian Reitwiessner for dedication to the Berlin Eth community and dedication to clean code
              
              do more together
              the open source community who believes in implementing a 
              
              
              
              
              dedicated and motivated by the idea of decentralisation
              not everyone is out to do good, but most people want to try. help them.
              a better one that now, hopefully
              POS will perpetuate possible/potentially present oligarchies in the governance structure
              building things that are meaningful (even in the smallest way)

            
              2018/05/31 5:15:44 PM GMT+7
              Not answering this question for fear of encouraging plutocracy
              JP Morgan, Gab, EOS
              Ethereum shouldn't embody values, it should execute transactions.
              Came for the well-designed smart contract platform. Stayed for the different projects that are going to work together, some in fascinating and surprising ways
              Hearing a talk on how to make dapps, realizing how nice and well though-out it all was and how much closer we were to building great things than I'd realized
              We did the DAO fork for historically understandable reasons and it worked out OK, but this has spawned various misconceived attempts to govern it that would be better done on a different platform or around a different token on top of Ethereum
              People trying to govern things
              Scaling hasn't succeeded yet. Also, see above.
              Fluffy coat, shiny nose
              Never put your faith in adhesives
              Most likely an authoritarian dystopia with Chinese characteristics, but we may be able to do something to prevent this
              True-believer echo chambers, self-congratulatory plutocracy
              Existential insurrection
              
              Edmund Edgar

            
              2018/05/31 5:53:14 PM GMT+7
              Joe Lubin - by far the largest benevolent contributor to Ethereum eco-system. Vlad Zamfir - pragmatic, tell it like it is kind of person. Hudson Jameson - Good moral compass.
              ConsenSys, Oaken Investments, Status, EEA
              Radical Decentralization, Inclusiveness, An ability to re-think how our social, political, financial operating systems work.
              The notion of a next generation decentralized World Wide Web.
              Eth <> MSFT partnership / DevCon1
              DAo/Parity Hacks. The protocol should NBT be solving application problems. 
              I think we need to speed up scalability very quickly or our competition will. 
              I think we need to speed up scalability very quickly or our competition will. 
              Understands technology, governance, and not there just for the money. 
              Honesty, kindness, empathy 
              A more even Gino coefficient 
              Scalability
              Family, friends, the fact that I helped /continue to help build something. 
              
              Andrew Keys

            
              2018/05/31 7:37:37 PM GMT+7
              Viktor Tron - SWARM Genie
Joseph Lubing - The Mesh Company Consensus

              DevCon
EthCon
Strong developer community
#buidl and not #maximalist
Empower through code
DAOs like Aragon/Colony
              
              The overall vision of Ethereum as the worlds backbone computer. Still here because of the smart people and stuff that is being built everyday. I have learned a lot. Thank you!
              When it went up to 1500$. 
Also the DAO before the hack. It made me feel I'm part of a bigger project. But now too, being happy by being able to contribute to the open source community.
              Can't think of any
              When Casper? :d
              
              Just by being interested in the tech and contributing with what you can.
              Be open minded and compassionate. Set goals and accomplish them.
              A decentralised kind of future. 
              
              Blockchain gave me meanimg in life and hope. Because of being part of a community with a view of changing the world.

            
              2018/05/31 8:11:44 PM GMT+7
              Compared to Vitalik? They are so obscure and non-prolific to the average ETH holder ... the next 3 in the community might as well be anonymous. Just saying.
              ETH mining community ... Ethereum reddit ... Millennials 
              Ethereum MUST become more user friendly if it's to attract people older than GenX and Millenials. That said, ETH should NEVER allow people/businesses who've been victimized, through no fault of their own, by sophisticated hacks or bugs on the blockchain ... Similarly, Ethereum must not abandon nor marginalize the Mining Community (who brung ya) with deleterious profit schemes hiding behind EIPs and democratic votes. Put succinctly, never leave one of our own behind ... or say goodbye to community loyalty.
              The depth and breadth of possibilities this technology ... this virtual machine ... represents ,,, and a strong belief in the Flipping. 
              The day true governance was instituted. 
              Yes, we let some of our community hanging after the blockchain was hacked ... And the short-sighted (Read: reckless) decision to go full PoS come Casper. 
              Vitalik 
              Envisioning the Long Game.
              An informed and active one ... 
              Be positive. Think local, act global. Make a difference in the world. 
              Blade Runner ... even while I strive for Star Trek.
              The loss of GPU mining community ... is the harbinger of centralization.
              Family. Country. Western Civilization. 
Because they are an extension of my soul.
              This was long overdue. Keep this trajectory. 
              Lucian Cross

            
              2018/05/31 8:41:40 PM GMT+7
              Zamfir, Lubin, MrYukonC. Integrity, create awareness, no toxicity, focus on dev.
              EEA, consensys, golem/0x/omg
              Openness (public and private networks, programming language agnostic) ; accessibility (anyone can program or have access to ethereum/dapps, social inclusion and collaboration with existing stakeholders (regulator, politics, lobbies...) because we can not make it alone ; integrity (focus on dev and progress, no participation in social media quarrels of other protocols...)
              Vision of empowering people, sharing economy
              Good and bad : the Dao. How ethereum team faced it made me confident in how the project is driven.
              Scalability issues. People need clarity about how/when it will be addressed. You need to communicate more about solutions in the media.
              Trolls on twitter. You should ignore them and not reply to their attacks
              Scalability. You need to communicate in the broad media about your solutions and reassure people
              Integrity. Tech skills. Good communicator
              Treat other people how i d like to be treated. Do good things.
              More people able to reach happiness and cover their basic needs. More respect between nations. Hopefully through decentralization
              Not fixing scalability issues as fast as possible. Ethereum should be in the spotlight more people or its organization rather than vitalik alone.
              Learning. Love
              
              Corbier

            
              2018/05/31 8:54:50 PM GMT+7
              Griff Green, Mihai Alisie
              what a hard question!
              Freedom, choice, exit, neutrality
              Technology for the sake of social change
              Introducing Aragon to the community. Felt so welcomed
              Spending funds raised by the EF
              EOS
              Spending funds quicker
              Humble, driven, passionate, sharp
              Freedom
              Crypto-anarchism
              
              Freedom, creativity, search for meaning

            
              2018/05/31 9:02:06 PM GMT+7
              Andy Millenius (shipping), Rhys Lindmark (so much engagement and curiosity),
              
              openness, kindness, technical excellence
              The potential for unstoppable infrastructure that isn't owned by anyone. I'm still here because I think it's going to happen :)
              Devcon is always a highlight: it's where you realise how many smart people are thinking about hard problems just like you
              Sometimes a lack of professionalism in some presentations. Some end up just being the audience signalling that they belong to a group of smart people even if they don't understand anything the presenter is saying. People have to leave the room if they don't understand, and the presenter has to explain better or not present at all.
              Overinflated expectations and vested interest. I think the latter is really hard to deal with as people are not being transparent with their stake in some initiatives. Also there's a tragedy of the commons around infrastructure and tooling where many raised money with ICOs but very few actually build or help build the supporting infrastructure.
              Diversity is still very much of an issue in my opinion.
              Openness, modesty.
              Learning as much as possible, trying hard things, make meaning.
              A slow couple of years solving core scalability, governance, privacy issues followed by a new beginning.
              Overengineering. Many projects are detached from reality.
              Learning
              
              Thibaut

            
              2018/05/31 9:26:38 PM GMT+7
              David Knott, Phil Daian, Karl Floersch, they inspire me to be better.
              EFF, libertarianism (generally), socialism (interestingly)
              Decentralization, freedom of infrastructure, common carriage, etc. Ability to freely create on top of provably fair rails.
              Possibility to create incentivse where none could previously exist. Same.
              Every day.
              Governance process needs to be more well defined, but not *too* well defined. Just described, written down.
              Conferences. 
              Developer tooling & docs.
              Kind, knowledge-seeking, willing to learn & teach. 
              Just chill out and be nice to people. Everyone's trying as hard as they can. 
              "egalitarian" is cheap. I envision a future where building is simple and applications are accessible. We should incentivize fair access.
              These projects that fiegn decentralization will kill Ethereum if we don't start working harder. 
              The ability to make things better for the next person.

            
              2018/06/01 2:57:23 AM GMT+7
              Phil Daian: pragmatic and an "outsider" ... Vlad Zampfir: aware of and educates about systems' trade offs ... Lane Rettig: communicates superbly well and covers all sides 
              Free market economics, censorship resistance, and innovation!
              If possible,"sharding" of governance. The same way males shouldn't be able to decide if women can legally get abortions, non-staking parties shouldn't have "too much" of a voice where their views don't impact both sides of a low-impact governance decision. The "pleasing of everybody" model ethereum currently has is only a safe position on, not a representation, of consensus. 
              The extended capabilities over Bitcoin. Still here because it has the most talented and intelligent and friendly devs. I hope the community doesn't stagnate like BTC has. 
              The DAO fork
              Social media post 2017 price explosion. There are fundamentalists who have too big of a voice now. 
              People who shout immutability without considering property rights. 
              Dev call vetoes. One dev present on every call can indefinitely delay a decision. 
              I can't say. 
              Plurality of perspectives, striving for empathy
              One that tends toward equilibrium 
              BTC governance
              Love

            
              2018/06/01 3:30:09 AM GMT+7
              Karl.Tech - Accessibility & Optimism
David Knott- Courage & Enthusiasm
Vansa - Composure & Articulation
              Intellectual Dark Web / GameB
Voluntaryism
              Genuine authenticity & open-mindedness.
There is no penalty for non-conformity, and people are rewarded for their intellectual integrity, personal contributions, and passion/enthusiasm. Merit and reputation are valued. The individual is celebrated.
              Before Ethereum, I participated in the Mastercoin community. I was inspired by the idea that markets could be decentralized just as securely as money. Vitalik was one of many community members who I respected at the time. So when he published the Ethereum whitepaper, I had already been thinking about how a system like Mastercoin could be improved.
The Ethereum whitepaper made so much sense, and the community that began to gather around it was so driven. The sentiment was "we are going to make this work." I guess it was the start of the ethos we now refer to as #buidl. All I wanted to do was build. That's what Ethereum promised, and that's what it's continued to deliver. So I'm still here :)
              Hearing my parents describe Ethereum to their friends for the first time.
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              The constant debate about whether or not a project needs a token. I completely agree that not all projects do, but I feel this has already been absorbed by the people who are going to understand it and act upon it. And lot of energy is wasted debating projects on a case-by-case basis.
Initiatives like cryptoeconomics.study are a fantastic antidote to this, because it takes the same thoughtful considerations and transforms them into something constructive.
              We are failing in our willingness to engage in public discourse about governance on the enterprise, application, and blockchain levels. 
ENTERPRISE -
I've been part of a Fortune 500's efforts to evaluate blockchain adoption (public chain & otherwise) and their number one concern, which they felt was unanswered, was how governance could work.
APPLICATION -
Maybe people are fearful of aggressively experimenting with on-chain application governance after the DAO?
BLOCKCHAIN - 
The EIP process, for example, is a bit mysterious to most of the community. I'd say the lack of understanding by the community was the leading reason some "Ethereum killers" raised so much money and attention in the last year. And I'm not even bringing this up to say I think they are a threat or whatever - diversity in implementations is a good thing. It's more to bring attention to the fact that _maybe_ if we had a more open discourse about governance, then some of the resources and mindshare that went to these other projects might have been applied to Ethereum.
              An educator.
              Time is our most limited resource.
I also believe the golden rule is backwards - I think we actually have the most control over how we treat ourselves. And the way we treat ourselves is the default for how we end up treating others. So learn to take care of yourself, first!
              I envision a future where individuals with a range of skills and abilities are able to design businesses and make financially empowered decisions as easily as they are able to create a successful instagram account or vlog series on YouTube. I also envision this will create an abundance of resources, just as social media/web2.0 has created an abundance of knowledge and information.
              That we don't have enough core members of the community who understand the true challenges of building and scaling the Ethereum ecosystem, _and_ who are willing, able, and interested in tackling them. 
Of course, there are incentives in place that will likely drive this naturally (as they have already proven they do). But it's still something I worry about.
              Empowering people. I used to work with people with disabilities for a number of years, and it was immensely rewarding. Blockchain will empower more people than I could have personally helped on my own. Of course, it's a different kind of empowerment and I don't really get the same personal face-to-face exposure. But the impact is real and meaningful.
Empowering people gives my life meaning because it creates a shared experience with others. Shared experiences have the power to move entire groups of people: families, friends, organizations, societies, and even civilizations. When a group of people make a change on that scale, it has the potential to produce dramatically new understandings. New understandings generally lead to a reduction in suffering.
              EthDenver was a pivotal experience for me. To be in one place with that many people all actively building a better future together is what convinced me to pull the trigger and begin to work full time in Ethereum. I made the decision that weekend and joined a project I'm proud to be part of within weeks. I've kept in contact with people I met at the event who experienced something similar.
Ethereum's biggest opportunity is exposing people to our community IRL. Events like EthGlobal reveal our culture and ethics to people. It is the best strategy for growing our community.
              Chris Robison

            
              2018/06/01 3:38:37 AM GMT+7
              Ameen Soleimani - He exhibits a punk rock spirit, leads with a middle finger, and balances that with a keen sense of humor and technical confidence while paving the way for the next huge wave of Ethereum adoption.
Taylor Monahan - In my opinion, she has done more for Ethereum (and crypto as a whole) than anyone else. From her spirit and candor, to her relentless resolve and dedication, she is a paragon of virtue in this space.
Jack du Rose - Though he usually only speaks out when he deems necessary, he has been a voice of reason in the Ethereum space since the beginning. I was with him at the height of the ICO fervor, Colony was ready to pull the trigger on a token sale, but he ultimately decided to take the rational, measured approach considering the looming regulatory uncertainties, and I think Colony (and eventually, Ethereum) will be better for it.
              Zcash - I believe Ethereum and Zcash to be perfectly aligned networks with similar core values, and I'm equally excited for both communities to collaborate together well into the future.
Sex workers are fighting a similar uphill battle against existing power structures. They face daily adversity and admonition, but through courage, resolve, and collaboration they'll have a real chance at autonomy; unbeholden to the current predatory and exploitative intermediaries.
Community gardens. A group of people coming together to plant seeds, water them, nurture them, pull weeds, harvest goods to consume, share, trade, or even add subsequent value. All this for the good of the whole community. As long as you're not a dick, you can participate.
              Bold, fearless, warm, generous, kind. Honest to ourselves and to each other.
              Joseph Lubin sold me on the vision initially. I'm still here because of the resolve and focus of the leaders in the community. I have never lost the belief that we can build a better world together.
              Getting my first job in the space as Colony's community manager. I was woefully unqualified, but was determined to follow the path to where I am today. Getting that job validated that decision.
              It's frustrating when you are the third party between two groups or individuals that may not necessarily agree or actively don't like one another, yet you like both parties, and even may want to collaborate with each.
The r/ethereum mods have not changed since the beginning even though the current mods have zero chance of devoting enough time given their current responsibilities.
              HODL-culture (tbf, it's more prevalent in BTC). The amount of conferences is too damn high. I get it from a networking standpoint, but many times it takes integral team members away from their core projects, and increases the difficulty in communication. Granted, I could just be a smidge jealous that I am married with 3 kids, and thus my conference experiences have been nil. :rofl:
              I have regrets about not persisting with the publication of Etherian.World. We fizzled out right around the time the Ethereum community needed us most. Projects were migrating off Slack, and it became impossible to efficiently keep up with the different projects in the space. I consider that a failure on my part.
              Quick to both ask and answer questions, puts others before themselves. Welcoming, generous, and patient with newcomers.
              The Golden Rule
              P2P markets becoming the norm. Open, permissionless marketplaces available to anyone to express their creativity and explore different crafts. Individuals fairly compensated for their work. People having a better opportunity to find their identities in themselves rather than in their careers. Multiple, functioning DAOs of all shapes and colors. Real life communities and neighborhoods in close proximity coordinating and collaborating together with these tools. The global community using blockchain technology as one tool to ensure that all future generations have access to the basic necessities of life the World around.
              No.
              Family, friends, music, and serving others.
              
              Chase

            
              2018/06/01 3:51:47 AM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson, Lane Rettig, Simon de la Rouviere, Karl Floesch, Joe Lubin — selflessness, honesty, integrity 
              Underground music/party community - it's all about letting people be who they are, no judgements 
              Decentralization 
              Smart contracts and investment opportunity. Still here because the community and pace of technical development is unparalleled. 
              When ETH hit $20
              I love VB but am not a fan of how combative he has become 
              No
              Scaling - I don't have any insight into Plasma Cash development/research but think that a ton of resources should be dedicated to getting it out ASAP
Ethereum Foundation - spend more money!
              Someone who contributes to the community
              Still trying to figure that out
              Either a decentralized one or an increasing centralized one. 
              Individual privacy is being eroded every single day. Hoping Ethereum helps to address this. Want to see more ZK features
              Friends, family, integrity. 'In the long run we're all dead' - trying to live in the present as much as possible. 
              It's surveys like this that make me confident that Ethereum has a bright future ahead. 
              Matteo Leibowitz

            
              2018/06/01 4:23:50 AM GMT+7
              Ashley Tyson. Not afraid to speak her mind. Tireless commitment to the good of the community.
Luis Cuende. Integrity and healthy values.
Gavin Wood. Inspiring vision of the future. 
              Solarpunk
Cryptoanarchism
Market anarchism
              Impartiality. Because fairness and equal treatment means less human intervention is needed (to make  special favors).
Immutability. Because it's more socially scalable than selective mutability (less for people to argue about).
              Censorship resistant general computation. I'm still here because I want to see this vision realized. 
              Joining an Ethereum project full time so I could get to know everyone in the space better. 
              The DAO and the ensuing hard fork. Launching Ethereum mainnet before the software and dev tooling was really mature enough to secure so much money. The very large premise. The double standard to hard fork for The DAO (stealing money from a contract user) but not fixing the Parity bug (returning access to users' property).
              The fucking scam bots and ICO fraudsters.
              Properly setting expectations about the current state of things and how long it will take for things to improve. Also more teams should be implementing short term scaling solutions like dappchains instead of sitting on their hands waiting for Vitalik to fix everything.
              Someone who acts with integrity, honesty, candor, and passion. Who gives back a portion of their gains from the platform to nonprofit common infrastructure development.
              Honesty, integrity, love, freedom, nonviolence
              One where people are free to be themselves, make a living for themselves and their families, and pursue their passions peacefully and without fear of persecution.
              Not anything really founded, just general "I hope this doesn't happen".
Endless bikeshedding and indecisiveness.
Governance coopted by statists and interventionists to cripple the platform's main value prop (unstoppable applications).
              Making the world a better place for future generations. Because the world is pretty shit now and I would have appreciated it if more people in previous generations had put in the effort to ensure as much for my generation. 
              Thanks for doing this survey.

            
              2018/06/01 5:39:24 AM GMT+7
              Vlad, Eric, Steve
              ETH amsterdam
ETH Tallin 
ETH Berlin
              Code is law and law is code.
Decentral governance and onchain voting
              An platform that has no singel point of fail wich has huge power. Most IT procceses could live in side chains and not on an central data steucture 
              Wheb ETH did its DOA split and showt it was a mature community
              More events and better guidlines how to use it ... also an pure utility token does 99% of the time add 0 to the value off the network
              ICO's abuse our amazing tech to make $$$
              Yes regulating ICO's ... some off this crap ICO should get an hall of shame ... where they will always be remeberd for the scams that they are ...
              Values, motivation and will power
              Making sure the goverment that acts against the good of it's investors will get trown over
              I am an project owner of an project that will change the world ... and also hacking from time to time
              That greed and short term vision takes over
              Changing the world for the better ...
              I would love to play a role in the ETH dev but not sure how?
              Amadeo Brands

            
              2018/06/01 5:58:02 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir, for his lighthearted pursuit of truth and beauty in cryptoeconomic systems. Nick Johnson for slinging contract code like a motherfucker. Karl Floersch for his educational flair.
              Solarpunk, as in the optimistic, ecological, anarchistic social movement. Nathan Waters' Peerism stuff. The Radical Markets guys (quadratic voting, etc).
              Self-sovereignty, freedom, egalitarianism and cooperation. Ethereum (and crypto) can be an alternative to the current dominant political and economic system, but to be worthwhile it has to actually improve things for all people (and not just a wealthy elite)

            
              2018/06/01 6:15:42 AM GMT+7
              Joe Lubin.
Nick Johnson.
Dan Finlay.
Contributions to the ethereum community.
              ConcourseQ, r/ethtrader
              Ethereum is for everyone.
Make life for humans better.
              Chance to change the world.
Same.
              
              fucking scammers.
              
              
              no bullying.
no marginalizing people for being different.
open to different opinions and perspectives.
financial motive is not their only motive.
              
              all the freedom but nearly no scarcity of goods.
              that authoritarian/kleptocratic governments will repurpose what we create to make controlling their populations easier.

            
              2018/06/01 6:41:24 AM GMT+7
              Mike Goldin, Simon de la Rouviere, Rhys Lindmark, Griff Green, Sina Habibian, Karl Floersch
              agnosticism
              pluralism
              freedom
              ETHDenver
              governance
              politics
              communication
              integrity
              curiosity, imagination, generosity
              unification
              war
              creativity

            
              2018/06/01 8:14:48 AM GMT+7
              Maybe Vlad. He’s controversial and thinks out of the on-chain box.
              Buddhism. As a practitioner myself I see too many similarities concerning ideology. 

              Humanism. We are still in the process to learn from humans. 
              
              All those AHA moments when you realize what you envision is actually possible. 

              
              Yes. When someone wants to impose his/her own criteria calling a proposal for Standard without even listening to the community. A proposal for Standard should be something we call when previous steps have been taken. For instance, feedback from the community, open and searchable discussions around the issue or any public and transparent approach that gives us the idea of a previous evaluation by the community. Only then you can ask to call it “Standard.”
Collect evidence before pushing an ERC forward should be a MUST, or at least a best practice. Then, with a better understanding of user needs, we can develop a standard. Trying to develop a standard for a product before you have any users entirely ignores the needs of your future users. Which is basically what we do not want if we aim to adoption. 
              Communication. We need to bridge the gaps in communication. However, it is hard if we don’t even agree on what are our shared values. 

              
              Listen to others. Learn every day. Don’t judge others. Give and receive (collaborate). Build things knowing you won’t be there in the future so you can empower others to take control of the tasks.
              
              a) Coordination during the early days of Governance is paramount. When I see a lack of coordination in the information it kind of freaks me out.
b) Some members of the community with hidden agenda. The ultimate goal of those individuals makes them act against the principles and values of the community as a whole in favor of his/her own project
              Knowing that I can start something relevant that someone else can complete without me for the greater good

            
              2018/06/01 9:50:23 AM GMT+7
              Karl Floersch - delightful personality, sincerely cares about helping others learn and understand; Liam Horne - intelligent and humble, has a vision for the global ETH hackathon movement, which is huge for community; Emin Gun Sirer - rigorous thinker who generously shares his insights
              ECF, ETHGlobal, Edcon, Devcon, Linktime, Token Summit
              1. Respectful and informed dialog among members -- inter nicene warfare has paralyzed innovation in the bitcoin community and that must not happen here, 2. Community and inclusiveness - long term success depends as much upon the size and activity level of the dev and user community as it does upon cryptography; it's very important that the community be welcoming to newcomers and not simply enshrine the founding fathers - there are many talented people who arrived recently (2017-18) but have much to offer the community, 3. Let value be earned not pumped  - eschew discussions of ETH price and ICOs - 
              Vitalik's basic idea of embedding code on the blockchain. I'm still here because I fundamentally believe the vision of a "world computer" for processing, storage and communication that is decentralized, secure and anonymous.
              The dancing at Edcon in Toronto this year. It reminded (most of) us all that we're humans and it's OK to be silly.
              Not really. As a global decentralized group, confusion, messiness and groping is par for the course. The "frustrating" things are also the things that make it exciting.
              People who cultivate a Satoshi-like mystery about themselves.
              I would like see more disciplines invited into and embraced by the community. For example, I believe crypto has been enriched by the "arrival" of economists such as Chris Burniske and Alex Evans. We should invite philosophers, legal scholars and political scientists into the EIP0 discussions - Ethereum is not the first community to grapple with governance of a decentralized organization. (See the 13 US colonies, circa 1776, as an example.)
              In addition to making their individual technical contributions, each member should vow to grow the community by welcoming and guiding newcomers.
              Curiosity; spirited dialog; humility; using the mouth and ears in the ratio they were given; love of nature; seeking to draw out the best in others; the Golden Rule
              I am worried about the unintended consequences of AI; I am worried about the digital divide and the resulting inequity in society (not inequality of outcomes, but of opportunity); I regret the lack of moral thinking in our society (and I worry that "mechanism design" and incentives aren't a true replacement for morality)
              The fears I listed above all have a close bearing on Ethereum. This is why I would like see the Ethereum community embrace philosophers and others outside the computer science / cryptography community to help shape Ethereum into a platform that truly serves society
              The process of "creating" is what gives my life meaning. It's wonderful to live in an era where its so easy to bring ideas to life. The best kind of creation involves creating and shaping other people - whether its our own children or those we teach, mentor and write for.
              I personally would like to find a way to get involved in helping the community mature.
              Mark McDowell (mark.mcdowell@realventures.com)

            
              2018/06/01 10:58:38 AM GMT+7
              Karl Floersch - bubbly and unrelentingly positive
rhys lindmark - doing some great work for EthCommons that benefits everyone

              Voluntarism
Effective Altruism
optimism =)
              a good balance between healthy competition and collaboration - intrachain and interchain
strong awareness of challenges from other ecosystems
              trustless value exchange / value networks not predicated on state-backing
              the point in the near future where I can work full time on helping the ETH ecosystem!  discovering new and useful projects
              transparency from the Ethereum Foundation for sure!! (including an updated website for both eth.org and the ethereum foundation. who works for the foundation?!)
              constant updates whether they are warranted or not.. it's easy to fall into the trap of viewing constant tiny updates and buying into the idea of progress
              who is we? if the EF, clear roadmaps and explanation of challenges. or is it good to have projects churning behind the scenes
              someone who rejects tribalism and is open-minded. willing to imagine possible futures
              skepticism, open-mindedness,
              one with limits on absolute power, support for the disenfranchised
              as the community grows further and people are people, a contentious fork stealing parts of the community
              observing / imbibing the world. do no harm
              wish I had more time to fill this out! please let me know if help is needed running Ethereum inititiatives / work for the Ethereum Foundation! Cheers
              Trenton Van Epps

            
              2018/06/01 11:53:06 AM GMT+7
              Rhys lindmark, ameen solemani, Mike Goldin. All have figured out what it means to make a quality token, and they have all figured out how to leverage that knowledge to better humanity with it. 
              Ethscape. Spankchain. The radical markets movement 
              That good projects have Emergent properties, and rent-seeking projects or for profit projects just don't naturally do as well 
              Public infrastructure created by the people.for the people. It just fulfills the original goals so so.msny seperate organizatiobs
              Putting my first miners together. Then, getting my a job in the space. 
              Figuring out how to explain it to people without them rolling their eyes
              Bitcoin maximalism
              Too early to tell
              One who prioritizes decentealization 
              Find the things that can do the most good.for the least amount of effort. 
              Hyper effeciency enabled by tokenization, blockchains, and other iot things solving climate change 
              Ethereum developers becoming too much of a central weak spot. For their own safety, or for.governmental attacks, etc 
              Finding the ways that produce the most good for the most people, with the least amount of effort 
              
              David hoffman

            
              2018/06/01 1:00:02 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir, Alex Van De Sande,
              Consensys,
              Openness, Inclusion and decentralization.
              The Tech, and Community spirit
              When I mined my first block
              GOVERNANCE, GOVERNANCE, GOVERNANCE
              
              
              A person that has an open mind.
              
              
              I fear a future where centralization somehow beats openness and decentralization

            
              2018/06/01 2:35:04 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - dedicated to sticking to and defending what he sees as right, Hudson Jameson - diplomat, facilitator, Luis Cuende (Aragon) - dedication to building world-changing applications for the sake of building world-changing applications, terrific dedication to transparency
              Aragon, decentralization, ConsenSys, libertariansim, cypherpunks, cryptography (I think that's close to a social movement, maybe I should've gone with 'cypherpunk'), Status, Giveth, I think that's enough for now
              Ethereum should be careful not to embody too many values, because it can restrict too many unforseen ideas. For instance, overdedication to the individual would've precluded the EEA. That being said, the vision of empowering the individual is probably the one value to rule them all. (Just that it shouldn't be applied in extremis, as above.)
              Amazing creativity, warm community, the rampant desire in the community to improve the word in a way I find rational.
              That time when I was a kid, and the big Ether diamond logo landed in front of the UN building in New York, and Vitalik walked out and said 'live long and prosper' with the 2001 theme playing in the background. I mean, Ethereum is like maybe 4 years old. Ask me in ten years.
              I'm not sure exactly what you mean. There have been crises, and there have been some pretty loaded discussions, but when you're building a beta software platform that's moving billions of dollars, I find that inevitable. If anything, I've been pleasantly surprised thus far how well the bad things have gone.
              Trying to filter out lies from truth, though this is even more true of the crypto community at large, and I feel is an inevitable consequence of building psuedo-decentralized platforms that could potentially move billions of dollars.
              Not yet. Fail is a very strong word, at this point.
              Creative, intelligent, articulate, able to see problems from both sides.
              Religion, and I prefer not to list others.
              Many, many different options there.
              Loads. What if decentralized private platforms (after zks are implemented for instance) end up empowering all sorts of horrid behavior? Child porn? Human slavery? Can you imagine a decentralized anonymous market for assassination? There are others, too. I'm pro-privacy, incidentally, but that doesn't mean I don't also play devil's advocate.
              I'm not answering this in an online Google form.
              
              William Schwab

            
              2018/06/01 2:35:42 PM GMT+7
              * Wendell Davies - great as a kick-starter for new and interesting projects  and their communities organiser.
*Taylor Monahan - she never organised her own ICO, but she makes a lot of startups very reach by allowing so many people to invest their ETH via MyEtherWallet and now MyCrypto. 
* Griff Green - big heart and brave guy.
* Julian Zawistowski - the greatest economical mind in Ethereum space. 
* Jun Hasegawa - for idea - Unbank the Banked with Ethereum and great realisation.
              *Anarcho-capitalists
*Freedomists
*Digital era nomads
              Freedom - that contains everything.
              Freedom and Freedom.
              The Dao - the explosion of spontaneous enthusiasm of so many people around a globe. 
              Scams, cheating, stealing people energy. How to make people less greedy?
              Yeah, thought, that some kind of socialism would work this time.
              Yes, banksters are still around and wars hasn't stopped yet.
              Love.
              Love and Freedom.
              Future without middlemen, wars and central banks. Very small governments and taxes.
              My fear is that evil banking psychopaths infiltrating whole cryptosphere.
              Love, because it is the best relation you could have to others.
              #build & #hodl
              ethereater ;-)

            
              2018/06/01 2:43:15 PM GMT+7
              Rabbyt (Isabella Rebel)
Bob Summerwill

              DCTRL (Decentral Vancouver)
Open Source
Solarpunk 
The commons

              Decentralization 
Inclusive values
Discussion over revolt
Evolution over revolution 
              The ability to codify meta-value sets using a massive world computing accounting system. I’m still with Ethereum because I feel a searingly post monetary future could be built on it or something like it.
              Mining my first, last and only block on Ethereum. It was at a time when people said ethereum was a scamcoin, I was still in Montreal with early Ethereum people and it felt like we were the only ones who knew the truth about the future. Even if it was just banging my head against the wall learning it. 
              Problems with open source licensing. this delayed hyperledger ethereum integration
              Vitalik being seen as some figure head or treating him as much
              Quality documentation at all levels
              Someone with a solid commons mentality, active in the space
              Give people the benefit of the doubt
Love first
Doge 

              A future where people can opt in via their communities in the process of democratized quantifiable and accounted value creation, then use this new created value and grab a sandwich with
              People co-opting the network for evil
              Knowing that I’m pushing the ball forward
              
              Jared Harrill

            
              2018/06/01 3:27:37 PM GMT+7
              Alex, Vlad, William Mouyager
              Consensys, Ethereum Magicians, left libertarian,
              The important thingsfor Etherereum are decentralisation and the possibility for trustless collaboration 
              DAOs. Not going to lie, skin in the game means I have probably diverted more attention to it than I would otherwise but decentralised 'trustless'  collaboration beyond moribund institutions as they exist still excites me. 
              This is roundabout but probably getting a  Particl staking node up and running on a rasberry pi. Was cool to work under the hood a bit. Everything is so hidden on a mac I had forgotten the pleasure of loading games on a C64. Geth got me working in terminal again which was the first step. 
              clear manipulation of reddit threads that make it hard to discern legitimate voices in opposition to the majority. 
              I check the price a lot. It's draining and pointless. 
              keep doing you 
              well educated, critical, autonomous 
              interrelation of all things, care for those things and relationships 
              unless capitalism's constant drive for expansion, extensive and intensive, is transformed by notions of rest and care, we are all fucked. Decentralised collaboration is a path out of the quagmire. 
              Algorithmically enforced 'happiness', rationalist techbros, right libertarians 
              other people, opening on to something other than your self 
              no
              /u/ethcepthional

            
              2018/06/01 3:46:49 PM GMT+7
              Jack du Rose (Colony.io) - they are putting a lot of thought into the design of colony. Griff Green (giveth.io) - spreading love and showing ultra big dedication for community. Nick Johnson (EF) - very proactive 
              Aragon, Status, Giveth
              Fairness, inclusivity, neutrality, proactiveness, equality, privacy, virtue
              Ethereum makes it possible for a new world to be built that creates a higher standard of living for everyone, eliminates corruption and censorship, enables people to directly interact. 
              Developers for Catalonia meetup at Devcon3. A lot of projects expressed desire to help and it was a great moment to be reminded again that we are truly building a new world without opression.
              For past, there's really not much to say as we're so early in development and it is clear that not everything can be "in place". 
              Not really
              With all the effort about scalability, I wonder why Swarm gets so little attention.
              Proactive, rational
              Stoicism.
              A vision where individuals are more empowered and in control. A future, where governments realise that they are in service of the individuals because their powers are offset by decentralised tech.
              In the present, my worry is more about Ethereum being quite self-centered. There is a lot happening in other ecosystems and Ethereum could also learn from those communities. Moreover, my worry is that it is dominated by the values Vitalik represents, however one is to be technical role model, the other is to be a values role model - this has to be a community effort. Additionaly, individual's views change through time (see https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8m3wj1/rothschilds_in_crypto_goodbadneutral/dzmspgv/ ).
              Personal growth and to leave the world a better place than it was. As the saying goes: "Change yourself, change the world."
              I'm happy that initiatives like this are being started as the "revolution" is as much social as it is technological.
              Gregor Zavcer

            
              2018/06/01 5:54:59 PM GMT+7
              Vinay Gupta, Vlad Zamfir, Joe Lubin   
              Cypherpunk, Open Source Software, Anarcho-capitalism
              Decentralisation, Openness, Transparency, Liberty
Those are the values we can fall back on when we want trust without coercion
              The idea that we can collaborate to create new economies and new realities that lead to a more equitable future.
Cryptoeconomics, Decentralisation, Web3 tech, Community
              EthCC in Paris was very good
              I tried to help with ethereum.org tutorial rewrite and got completely ignored. Small stuff.
              Some of the people and teams in the community have a distorted view of their self-worth and significance in the world because they ran a ICO and are millionaires in their 20s. They are unreasonably full of themselves and they are hard to approach, let alone work with.
              
              Willing to learn and collaborate with others; 
An open, tenacious and curious mind;
              Humility, perseverance and gratitude.
              I see a future where we are truly free, where societies are built on respect and transparency and trust and where our lives are not monitored by dozens of 3 letter agencies and thousands of data brokers. Where our value and our opportunities depends on what we can do with or for other, not on family names or place of birth.
              In times of crisis, many people tend to look for a "saviour" figure but most people can't see past their own bias, including Vitalik. 
              My kids and Ethereum :-)

            
              2018/06/01 6:01:56 PM GMT+7
              Alex Van de Sande is thoughtful, smart, and articulate. He thinks deeply about creative solutions to challenges to our ecosystem, and shares them fearlessly.
Griff Green embodies everything that is good about our community. He is just about the nicest, most generous person I have ever had the pleasure to know. He is indefatigably optimistic, open, and giving to the community he cares about passionately.
Jordi Baylina and the rest of the WHG, perhaps unsurprisingly, like Griff Green, contribute a great deal to many people in the space without looking for recognition of their work, or expectation of reward outside of the betterment of the space.
              How about just one? The organisation design community has similar values, albeit in a different context. They are intrigued by us, but don't really understand what we do. I think there is huge value to be gained for our community governance by building bridges between these communities.
              I agree with Piper Merriam: https://medium.com/@pipermerriam/thoughts-on-our-values-as-a-community-19ada1d4749
              I read Vitalik's white paper maybe 2 weeks after it was published. It was a really important moment in my life, and sent me down a new road. I believed in the future contained within its pages, and I still believe in it now. I think there has been an unfortunate, albeit perhaps inevitable, detour to less savoury and primarily financially motivated waters, but the real work is still being done by the best teams in the space, and they are still adhering to the values which were present in the early days.
              Perversely, the theDAO fiasco springs to mind, because it brought so many of us together to overcome a common obstacle.
              As a leader of a project which will do an ICO, I don't really like ICOs. I think they have a potential for being a force for good, but I feel they are a powerful tool we have not yet learned how to use responsibly. Consequently, they are being used for wildly inappropriate purposes by inappropriate projects. I feel like there are very specific cases where an ICO is appropriate, and I'd like us to get to a point where we can self regulate this. However, I don't have a good answer as to how to do so practically.
              Ugh, hands down ICO marketing, and the increasing difficulty of filtering signal from noise. The corollary to this effect is that it seems the community at large now finds it harder to distinguish between meaningful thought and development, and marketing fluff, so engagement has reduced.
              There are no failures, only lessons.
              I kinda see the whole Ethereum community as being a weird sort of company. It's not a partnership, because we're all doing our own thing, but we have a common underlying economic layer, and if we do good things independently, in aggregate we will all benefit.
This benefit however, is not solely pecuniary, indeed it is by the proliferation of behaviours and practices which are fundamentally designed to create a better, fairer social and economic systems which have the power to displace the current imbalanced and exploitative ones.
The people I most care about in the space therefore are those who:
* Understand that their path to personal success, is the success of the wider ecosystem and always strive for information symmetry and aligned interests.
* Engage intelligently, critically, candidly, and kindly with the opportunities and challenges we face together.
* Embrace the open source ethos of sharing without expectation of direct reward.
* Are open and willing to share insights won through success and failure alike.
              I believe I have the right to do whatever brings me satisfaction, on the condition that my satisfaction is not at the cost of harm to others.
              I am an optimist. I believe, for the first time in history, we have at our disposal the building blocks of a post capitalism society, able to compete with and supersede capitalism, on its own terms: rational self interest. I think this gives us the tools to create fairer economic systems which do not incentivise, and inevitably lead to the concentration of disproportionate wealth with a very few, because the game theory shows us that these systems only truly work if that wealth (and control) is well distributed.
              Privacy and forgiveness: the blockchain never forgets. 
As a society we have almost uniformly agrees that everyone gets to be forgiven, and records expunged, for all but the most heinous of crimes. We don't have that on the blockchain, and if we can be associated with an address, our actions and errors will be plainly available to see for all time. 
              Wow. Big question. 
My previous career was as a ultra high end jeweller. I made extraordinarily expensive things for people who already had so much too much, they had to really go out of their way to find extravagant ways of spending money on the most utterly self indulgent and frivolous fripperies the world has to offer. Honestly, it was nauseating—especially when combined with the wholly inappropriate sense of importance, sophistication, and gravitas which these people attach to it.
That experience actually leeched meaning from my life. Although I liked making the super complex, amazing objects I made, which by virtue of their nature will probably outlive humanity, the context of that creation was so inescapably vapid, it made me sick. 
By contrast, I now feel like I am working towards something which (I hope) will end up (even if in only a small way) improving the world, within a community which broadly feels like it shares my values. To me, that is far more fulfilling than being featured in Vogue for the bling I made which lives in some rich dude's safe.
              I think I've said enough.
              Jack du Rose

            
              2018/06/01 6:05:52 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir - honest, driven; Nick Johnson - depth of understanding; Karl Floersch - enthusiasm
              
              Openness, accessible, collective progression, ambition, global
              It's an opportunity to take another look at some aspects in industry that are taken as fundamental. It's an opportunity to take learnings from developments in other areas and apply to your specialisation. The open source foundations of Ethereum are absolutely the most important thing.
              DevCon3 was my first devcon, and was pretty special - seeing the level of enthusiasm  
              
              
              We need to get better at security. We need to start testing the potential role for tokens - which is a challenge when quite a few of them have already been sold...
              
              Passion, honesty, drive
              
              We need to get scalability solutions onto livenet asap
              
              
              Dan, JAAK

            
              2018/06/01 6:49:10 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir,Gavin Wood
              Ethereum foundation, Enterprise Ethereum alliance, /r/ethereum
              Neutrality to avoid being controlled by some people
              I was too young to see the Web growing, so I don't want to miss the Ethereum train
              
              
              
              Public relations
              Passionate

            
              2018/06/01 7:53:58 PM GMT+7
              Hudson Jameson because he organizes the community and connects people. Joseph Lubin because he is getting things done in the "real world" and building applications that normal people actually use like metamask. Taylor Monahan for building a service that non-technical people can use and having the courage to branch off when things were not working.
              Libertarian socialism, globalism, humanitarianism.
              Openness to all people even non-technical people because that is the only way to adoption. Must be better incentives for regular people to use Ethereum.
              It promised to create a decentralized internet with powerful new ways for people to interact with each other. I am still here because the community has continued to grow and thrive and I like being part of it. 
              When Ethereum reached $200 because I like having money.
              It is difficult to learn how to #buidl (develop dapps on ethereum)  even though the motivation and incentives are there. Luckily it is getting better all the time. Initiatives like these are helpful. 
              No, it's not bitcoin.
              No, it's all a work in progress.
              Anyone who cares about the global community and works towards moving it forward.
              
              One where all people are equal. 
              I fear that Ethereum has become overhyped so the practical applications will not bring as much value as people expect or the technical challenges are too great to overcome.
              Trying to leave this world better than the one we found.

            
              2018/06/01 9:05:26 PM GMT+7
              Karl Floersch for his energy and enthusiasm. Vlad Zamfir for his deep concern for wider ethical issues. Griff Green for the optimism and warmth he shows to newcomers.
              Gosh. If I knew more, I’d join them! Patchwork (Scuttlebutt) is the closest thing I know of in terms of shared values and beliefs. 
              Freedom of expression, open access, and a profound understanding of the wider implications of decentralised technology.  I believe Ethereum’s core values are its biggest asset. Which is odd as, as far as I'm aware, nobody wrote a “Principles” document during the early days - they just emerged organically over time.  
              The user interface of Aleph Zero ;) Haha no. It was the people, lack of corporate bullshit, and a passionate desire to improve the world via decentralisation.
              Meeting so many incredible people at Devcon 1. Small conferences of early adopters are the best!
              Two bad design decisions which compromise privacy: 1) The design of web3.js. Injecting a global JS object is messy and allows any website to track visitors by sniffing web3.eth.coinbase. 2) Dapp developers being forced to store plain text on the main chain until alternatives like Swarm are usable.
              Nothing I choose to give my attention to. The EIP999 debate is painful but necessary. 
              I feel some Ethereum core devs dismiss ‘competing’ projects out of hand based on emotional reasons (“Oh it’s by *that* guy!”), rather than objectively assessing the technology. There are good ideas to be found in most competing projects, especially around improving the developer experience. 
              Someone who is open minded, respectful to different view points, and welcoming of new ideas and people. They must also consider the wider societal implications of this powerful technology. I would like them to dedicate 10% of their time to download and play with other projects out there (EOS, Cardano, NEO, Waves, etc), taking the best ideas and improving upon them. I know everybody is busy building, but tunnel vision will not help Ethereum in the long term.
              1) Relentlessly focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want. 2) Don't tolerate differences, respect them. 3) Only do what you feel inspired to do. Trying to motivate yourself is a waste of time.
              An incredible one :-) Sure there will be blips, but I firmly believe things get better over time. However, it is up to all of us to become active creators of the future we want to see.
              My main worry is undeletable, indestructible plain text data written by dapps to the main chain. This is a terrible idea, yet most dapps still do it! I also worry that the overall experience Ethereum offers developers (Solidity + web3.js) is not good enough to compete with other projects long term.
              We must find our own meaning by focusing on thoughts that bring us joy and constantly closing the gap between our desires and beliefs. 
              I believe Ethereum will thrive or die depending upon its ability to attract and retain the best developers. Developers will flock to blockchain platforms that share their core beliefs AND offer a great developer experience. Ethereum's community and principles are second to none, but we must never get complacent or afraid of change. We must make our own technology obsolete before another project does.
              Owen Barnes

            
              2018/06/01 10:34:14 PM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir -- he's frank, sincere, realistic, oriented towards constructive self/community criticism, values humor and levity. Karl Floersch -- he radiates positivity, he's driven by community ethos and the societal good impacts of the technology. Hudson Jameson -- same reasons as Karl but w/ a dash more of practicality and bias towards action & operational gusto. Aya Miyaguchi -- she enables peace and openness, has a service orientation, and high standards of excellence. Phil Daian & Andrew Miller -- high integrity, intellectual rigor, emotional intelligence, they're not strictly Ethereum community but they're people I feel bring Eth community-like values to the entire blockchain space. So many more.... 
              On the social movement/ideology front -- I think there are four ideological/cultural centers of gravity that people come into Ethereum from: 1.) OG cypherpunk/tech-libertarianism --> people who are here for the tech, they're driven by the promise of veridical computation and individual liberty, 2.) disillusioned "punks"/anarchists --> people who come from the Occupy Wall St camp, they've seen how broken our systems are and are driven by the chance to burn it down and build it from scratch, 3.) entrepreneurs/neo-capitalists --> they're here for the forward progress and abundance inevitable in the tech, they're driven by innovation and opportunity they see as a natural product of the marketplace, 4.) collectivist humanitarians --> people focused on the collaborative aspects of the tech and the potential it has for enabling progressive social change and global impact (perhaps these folks are a little bit neo-marxist). People land in the Ethereum space from many unique combinations (and exceptions!) of these ideologies, but I find this heuristic useful when trying to understand and empathize with the spectrum of community members I meet -- like a blockchain Myers-Briggs... ;) 
              Trustworthiness, technological innovation and rigor, inclusivity, collaboration, individual expression, justice, accountability, and agility. 
              The big picture social and evolutionary framing, inclusivity, highly intelligent people, and positivity. Mihai's blog post on the "crypto renaissance" was the catalyst that clicked it all into place for me. I don't come from a technical or finance background, so though I knew a bit about bitcoin it was never appealing enough for me dive in to learn more (at the time I associated bitcoin with a certain type of redditor nerd/bro -- I had mildly misogynistic experiences that turned me off), but Ethereum was different. From the start it was a place I felt comfortable asking questions, was treated with respect and kindness/wasn't talked down to because I wasn't technical or was a woman, there was sort of an implicit value of feminine intelligence and qualities that made it really easy to stick around. And I'm still here because that's still the case. I'm still here because I'm challenged every day by some of the smartest people on the planet, because community members are truly driven by building a better world, and because there's a foundational thoughtfulness and evolved consciousness vibe that's not going anywhere. 
              DevCon1 was definitely up there. Partially because it was a tremendous feat to pull off along with the under-resourced Foundation (myself, a handful of other ConsenSys people & volunteers) -- we barely did it. That sort of experience feels like a tangible irl experiential case study of the community strengths & values we espouse. It was also for me a starkly validating and surreal experience. This was the first time I met most of the community in person, and I think that was true for many of the attendees. It felt as though we were all pinching ourselves, there was a sense of "shit, this is real...I'm not just awaking from a fever dream!" with a giddy and joyous momentum that flowed from that. 
              Some of the drama during Ming's tenure at the foundation was a little frightening -- but that wasn't something that was really a part of the public community (which is one of the reasons why it was bad -- the secrecy, fear, etc.). The EIP 999 noise is a bit frustrating and distracting, but I think there are enough community leaders (like yourself w/ this survey), and a general groundedness of mentality in the larger community that will result in applicable learnings and overall positivity in hindsight. 
              Keeping up with the pulse! The typical ups and downs of investing your energy in a community of minimally structured emergent social behavior. Emotionally -- the weight of the broader community risks we all share (i.e. another DAO, regulatory uncertainty, etc.) are no small toll. But something I think Ethereum does well compared to other areas of crypto is we collectively understand the importance of levity, humor, self-expression, and kindness in the face of all of that. 
              More something we can do much much better at --> Investing in research and tools to improve the experience of and lower the barriers to being a good community member. A ton of other things as well -- we could be better at engaging with policy makers and other sorts of extra-community outreach/advocacy, better at not allowing media narratives to warp or simplify the community (esp. wrt to the 'cult of Vitalik'), better at building developer-friendly documentation, tooling, education and outreach materials. Too many to name. 
              Biased towards action; curiosity & empathy -- someone who listens, reads, and asks questions of those around them; purpose driven; sees their role as being of service to the community, ie. sharing skills and resources to improve the technology for all. 
              Love, integrity, courage, collaboration, fun, intellectual rigor, loyalty, harmony, expression, justice, meritocracy, empathy, autonomy, service, generosity, fairness, beauty, and inspiring others. 
              I try to envision a nice one. :) But I'm a student of history, I know it's going to get really ugly at times. The majority of people are not going to be able to handle the cognitive shifts that the acceleration of technology requires, which will lead to lots of friction, insanity, violence. But generally I'm pretty trans-humanist/singularity leaning, I envision a loving and harmonious Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-esque "global brain" type of future -- enabled by technology (blockchain, AI, etc.) of course. 
              The best fear to have is the fear of your own ignorance and biases, of what we don't know yet (like scaling), and what we don't know we don't know. I'm also fearful of misaligned incentives and unintended outcomes of new technology (like what we've seen with social media), especially a technology that has to rely so much on human behavior as a design variable. 
              I'm driven by the evolution of humanity -- catalyzing/driving/aligning/building towards that is my purpose & what gives my life meaning. My relationships give my life meaning, my own mind/internal world, my personal experience of a spiritual/energetic universal force -- all the usual stuff. :) 
              Thank you for putting this out there!!! 
              Carolyn Reckhow

            
              2018/06/01 10:49:13 PM GMT+7
              
              
              Keeping away (as much as possible) of all the "financial" aspect of the technology and focus on powering up the decentralization by including users/people/entities.
Trying to make Ethereum a real alternative for social changes.
              Originally, I would say that the decentralized aspect of this tech which associate with freedom, equality, openness is very attractive for me and this is I think quite seldom to see this in IT. 
So then I was happy to see an evolution that fits with my ideas.

              Frontier ? :)
              We could have better setup a proper governance 1 years ago. That would perhaps would have helped us to find the right answer to crazy ICOs. 
Not by means of lashing ICOs but by defining a set of best practices relating to ICO that would help end users to not commit to scam and that would help ICOs to be better broadly accepted in the non IT world (financial world for instance).
(well perhaps these best practices already exist ;) ... would be happy to know that.
The thing is that the community is still young and the tech still in development so that was not the time, but I think this idea of best practices for ICOs should be dug.
              
              
              I think openness and persevering
              
              I'd like more non IT entities be more involved in our community.
I personally like Ethereum cause it could leads to social changes for good, but i also think that this decentralized tech is ("just") a tool, If we really want something happening (increasing equality or increasing transparency of our public governement for instance), we should on board these non IT entities, association, that share the same ideas.
              
              
              
              Yann Levreau

            
              2018/06/02 1:16:31 AM GMT+7
              Griff Green, Taylor Monahan, Nick Johnson 
              Status, Aragon, Swarm City
              A community that gives back and tries to better the world and the people in it 
              The thought that I could personally disrupt some of the system, and others in the community feel the same. 
              The enablement to afford real estate where I grew up. 
              Icos/greed/scammy companies
              Greed
              Standing behind the ideals that are preached
              The want to change the world for the better 
              Honestly / loyalty / Integrity
              Disruption of real estate/ government / currency 
              Everyone could not build anything and it could fail...
              My wife, dog, and soon to be daughter 
              
              Kevin

            
              2018/06/02 4:48:13 AM GMT+7
              Omar (Crypt0 youtuber)- he seems to have the right intentions
Joseph Lubin- super successful and working to change society for the better (social impact capitalism)
Andreas Antonopoulos/Naval Ravikant- not so much strictly in the ethereum community but two great individuals for the blockchain space; evangelism, business experience, and enthusiasm 
              socially conscious capitalism
libertarianism 
 
              
              bringing down out-dated, predatory, and nefarious entities and middlemen; the sheer incompetence of the US banking system and how people can tell me how and when I can have access and use my money, and that I am charged to use my own money at times
              the day when my very first (modest) investment doubled. It meant that people were catching on and the movement had begun
              ask me again after EIP999 is decided
              
              
              
              
              
              PoS and/or sharding failing.

            
              2018/06/02 8:36:22 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamf - A good dose of scepticism that's always needed. 
Alex Van de Sande - Not just tech, but also lots of insightful social commentary
Karl Floersch - His passion and dedication second to none
              I would say, Ethereum is closely related to all other cryptocurrency communities, but differs in many ways, mainly because it is largely developer centric.
I would probably compare it to the early days of bitcoin, or perhaps the early days of the internet itself, where everyone was busy building. 
              Its should be open and accessible to everyone. Transparent, open-source, where developers focus on developing things, coming to consensus rather than endless bickering. The best value is that Ethereum possess IMO is that it embraces hard-forks. Another great thing is that the project is not afraid to take on risks and challenges.
              Participated in ICO because I liked the idea of smart contracts & programmable money - something bitcoin stagnated on. Didn't know about the team (what an absolute gem Vitalik turned out to be), didn't know about staking or sharding. 
Still here because I think Ethereum turned out to be successful so far & is headed in the right direction.
              When Fronteer launched. It was a demonstration that Ethereum can work and it's actually quite powerful.
              TheDAO has been frustrating, although I think it was handled well and a great learning experience. EIP999 has been frustrating that it even got accepted for debate, as it's not even an improvement to Ethereum, and I think we've already learned our lessons before.
              No, I love it! Even though EIP999 has been frustrating, I'm sure the community can reach consensus and move forward.
              Perhaps failing at reaching deadlines / estimates. Although it's normal with software development, especially for Ethereum with such a large scope & the unexpected success can take a toll.
              Anybody, from holder to developer or researcher or user can be a good community member. I think the best community members do not use Ethereum as a get-rich-quick scheme, they rather focus on the technology and the social implications of it, they look to how it can be used to solve real world problems.
              I like the saying "Build it and they will come". 
              Substantial part of the world economy running on Ethereum
              Sure, Ethereum scope is quite large and far from complete, but is already highly adopted. I fear that the project may stagnate and not move forward to completion, just like bitcoin. Although the 'difficulty bomb' gives me hope.
              I like the philosophies of Daoism, however I do sometimes step outside these boundaries as following these is not always practical.

            
              2018/06/02 6:27:01 PM GMT+7
              Jutta Steiner, Amber Baldet, Eric Voorhees - authentic doers who care about other people and the impact of what they make
              Technocracy, Oslo Freedom Forum, The New Deal
              Broad education, accessibility & inclusion, tolerance for experimentation balanced with understanding that the world is not a neutral place where all ideas have equal merit, kindness
              Building a new internet on both counts
              Too many - I have never made real friends at other tech "meetups," but I have at Devcon / EthCC / Ethereal / etc. There are a hugely diverse number of people working on really hard problems in cool ways, and there are also just people who you want to have a beer with
              Vitalik said some unsettling things about child porn and just last week decided privacy is important for human rights (?!?!?!). He's good at some things, he's not a prophet. There are other great leaders in the community, we need to do a better job getting them heard and "blessed" broadly. There's no way to avoid some people being leaders as not all humans can be deep experts in everything, but we need leaders that (a) push back on wanting to be in a position of authority and (b) some more grown-ups would be ok
              Crypto trolls on twitter (real and bots). Animosity about and from other communities and even between Ethereum projects. The insane overreach of ConsenSys that is aggregating money, talent, and access (to all their clients) in scary ways. The focus on social good as an outcome at the application layer rather than coming from the security properties of the lower layers. 
              What is going on with the EF vs Ethereum Research? Why isn't tons of money being directed by those orgs (does only one have money?) into real core development? The grant program is a start but needs 10x and better coordination / visibility.
              At least two of: Deep technical systems knowledge, Charismatic community organizer, Connections outside the Ethereum community (to other techs, businesses, governments, etc.), Kindness 
              
              Ongoing geopolitical semi-stability (business as usual) as a best case, Orwellian / William Gibson style dystopia in the more likely case
              Usually we trust someone because they are better at something than us - like I trust a password manager to store 1000 different unique passwords. It's not all bad. The idea that everyone should be their own bank and hold their own keys could be very bad for people that are not and have no desire to be that. We need to make the lives people want better, not tell them what their life should be.
              The vastness of space, recognition that we are in this together, and my children

            
              2018/06/03 1:10:34 AM GMT+7
              Vlad Zamfir, Karl Floersch, Hudson Jameson
              Libertarianism, Ronald Coase Institute, Public Choice Economics
              Volunteerism
              It allows people to credibly commit to logical structures thus facilitating mutually beneficial interactions.
              Learning how it works. It was a great lightbulb moment.
              Ethereum Wallet & Geth seem to have lots of problems working/syncing.
              Talk of token price seems to be to most prevalent subject of conversation, which I find mostly uninteresting and missing the real value in Ethereum.
              Not sure.
              Someone who contributes something, whether by educating others or peer reviewing code.
              Mutually beneficial cooperation.
              A future where people get more out of life.
              Governments making it very hard for Ethereum to survive.
              Creating things. Music, programs, ideas. It makes me feel like I matter.
              N/A