Hello, Ergo Investor here. Had a few questions for the leadership

of the project, from what I’ve seen @kushti_ru , @Armeanio @dadreboi

In one sentence, what is your vision for Ergo?

In the short term, what is your target? As in who do you want to onboard in the project first?

Why do you keep such a conservative marketing strategy and underline the technical aspect of the blockchain rather than making it hype? Is Ergo a blockchain for devs or for everyone?

[cafebedouin] Read the Ergo Manifesto. That's the vision. https://ergoplatform.org/en/blog/2021-04-26-the-ergo-manifesto/

Vision of Ergo isn't a centralized team decision. Ergo is proof of work so the miners have a vote to make key consensus decisions for chain with their hashpower. There is a ErgoFoundation whose aim is to educate and fund open development, not to drive market narrative. Sigmanauts is a community run group who I think have more freedom to participate in driving Ergo's marketing. In short I personally can summarize Ergo is building resilient and programmable money for the people, which is stated in the Ergo Manifesto.

Thank you cafebedouin, read an article in your blog sometime ago stating you were quitting the chain, what made you come back?

Thank you Erika, that is an answer I have read multiple times, but does not really state anything about the short term vision, the target of the chain nor why the narrative is this one today does it? The chain can be decentralised but it really feels like there is a leadership heading the boat somewhere, wanted to know from them what was the direction in the short term. I am just a passive investor trying to see if it is worth funding the project, and the answer provided, without offense, does not really satisfy the purpose of the question.

your investments should not rely on vision of some people. If you plan invest in open source ecosystem, you should check main idea of ecosystem and recheck if ecosystem follows it in reality.

Well, if you are looking for kushti or Joe to shill ergo, that wont happen in words, but u can check github and all ecosystem ergo has , compair it with Any top 10 pow or even Any top 100 crypto ranks We have alot of tooling ,tradefi,defi,staking , launchpads,nfts,bonds ...all decentralized (on Chaín) trustless ...that's the beauty of ergo :)

https://curiaregiscrypto.medium.com/cryptocurrencies-permissionless-and-open-source-monetary-systems-b89f28da0346

Hi A! Ergo is permissionless, so what I claim is my own opinion. One sentence: Ergo is smart money (eUTXO) built with true resiliency (PoW) creating unstoppable financial tooling for everybody. Question two: My personal short term goal is to help create and sustain a real system and store of value for the people who utilize it as well as for the people who use it unknowingly. Question three: I attempt to onboard everyone, but in the immediate I think there are huge opportunities to onboard the people who are the opposite of speculators. The people who suffer from inflation and corruption and have little control over their own stores of value or markets. Question four: Marketing in its current form of crypo influencers is attracting speculators who have one goal and that is to extract value. Ranging from VC to CEXs their goal is the same. In my opinion we need to market with programs and tooling to reach the base layer of real adoption. Start getting the tools to the people who can use the stores of value on chain and stay on chain as it moves between people, communities, and businesses. That means supporting projects and teams with visions to do such. Of course, influencers (who really should be called promoters because that’s what they are) can be useful and can be used. Sigmanauts have a vote up soon to do that. As the sigs build their treasury many of these opportunities of funding will be realized. In short, Ergo is unique and actually what a blockchain should be. Everything else is just a digital version of a fiat system. That being said, would the success of the goals I stated above cause the price of ergo to go up? Yes.

For question one sometimes I think for a resilient network with bearer assets is for anyone….not necessarily everyone. As it takes some responsibility.

good point, i like the anybody nuance better than the everyone.

Well said, I agree with everything you said. There just one thing we should be careful about as a community and that is cretinism of other chains… I agree that most chains just are copies of other chains pretending to be something there are not. But you need to be diplomatic and inclusive so that kind of talk does not hurt us in the end. Focus on what you like if there is something. Being inclusive is powerful and you do not hurt, push away or close any doors. We do not want to be hated. We want others to want to join because we inspire, the tech is useful and the ideas are great. And we are down to earth.

I speak about that exact point at length in many of my dev updates with outside guests.

Yes I know, you are the one pointed it out. I remember just a reminder. Because thing are frustrating sometimes.

I am personally considering Ergo protocols, ecosystem and community as open source money movement, centered around hard money (for hard times) ie Ergo, but also developing resilient grassroot based financial tooling for adoption.

And I think there are more opinion leaders around than just 3 of us.

And as a guy working in R&D for about 20 years, I am definitely inclined to use corresponding language. That does not make Ergo for devs only or whatever, everyone should feel self comfortable here