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Recently, governance voting has been a bit of a spectacle: a bunch of people delegate their votes, and in the end, it turns into just a few addresses "speaking on behalf of everyone." Frankly, governance tokens often don't govern the protocol itself, but rather the token distribution and lazy human nature... I’ve been lazy myself too, just clicking delegate and thinking I’ve participated.
Not to mention that now the community is still arguing over privacy coins, coin mixing, and compliance boundaries—some shout for freedom, others fear a crackdown. As a result, the real decision-makers in governance are still those few "representatives," whose risk preferences directly shape everyone’s daily experience.
I don’t have any grand plans, just some personal patches: delegation is fine, but I check the voting record periodically and withdraw if necessary; for major proposals, I prefer not to vote or vote less; if I see voting power becoming more concentrated, I stay alert—no matter how good the execution, if the direction is off, it’s useless. That’s all for now.