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DAO governance gridlock is painfully real, especially when critical upgrades get stalled by low voter turnout or whale apathy. What seems to actually work lately is hybrid governance: letting token holders elect smaller sub-DAOs or councils with time-locked multisigs for everyday operational calls. It keeps community ownership intact while cutting down the friction so devs can actually ship instead of waiting three weeks for basic budget approvals.

Isn't the purpose of a DAO to avoid all of this BS? Asking for a friend

Our guest was Edilson Osório, who founded \[OriginalMy\](https://originalmy.com) in Brazil back in 2015. If you haven't come across it, it's one of the longest-running real-world projects on ETC: they anchor documents, digital signatures and web evidence on-chain so they can stand up in court. The origin story is worth the listen on its own. Edilson was building a tool to collect citizen signatures for public bills on Ethereum when The DAO fork happened. The people backing the project asked a fair question: how do you present signatures to Congress from a chain that just got rewritten? He moved off Ethereum and eventually brought everything over to ETC, and he's stayed through everything since, including the 51% attacks. He runs his own node, and his system re-sent the handful of affected transactions automatically. He described ETC as "like Wolverine," which I'm going to be stealing. We also got into how the signing contract works, his browser plugin that Brazilian courts have accepted as evidence since 2019, and Hääl, his protocol for secret voting on public blockchains (\[repo here\](https://github.com/OriginalMy/originalmy-haal)). Brolal brought some good questions about Romania using a permissioned blockchain for its elections, which turned into a solid discussion on whether a chain means anything if citizens can't audit it. Timestamps: \- 1:10 How OriginalMy started \- 10:08 Why Bitcoin, ETC and Decred \- 15:10 How it works, and getting accepted in court \- 20:05 Hääl and secret voting \- 26:53 Romania's election blockchain \- 41:25 What customers actually see \- 51:32 Why they stayed through the attacks \- 1:00:18 His advice to builders who think ETC is dead Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgKJKHLrOD4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgKJKHLrOD4) Full transcript and summary: [https://cc.ethereumclassic.org/calls/61](https://cc.ethereumclassic.org/calls/61) One thing from the call I'd like to hear people's take on: Istora floated an OpenTimestamps-style anchoring service on ETC, and Edilson didn't think anything like it exists here yet. Would you use something like that? What would you anchor?