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another update on our Android local AI bounty (following up on [this comment from a few days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1wqhryb/comment/pc75isw/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button))
the bounty is currently at 1.139 ETH (\~$3000) following Vitalik's contribution
I'm now trying to boost it with another 2 ETH via this Nouns DAO proposal: [https://nouns.wtf/vote/999](https://nouns.wtf/vote/999)
if anyone here is a Nouns voter or has connections within the Nouns ecosystem, I'd love your support! there's \~48 hours left to cast a vote
and worth mentioning that if you like the mission of funding a 100% offline local AI for Android, you can add ETH to the pot directly via: [https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/31](https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/31)
we already have some great open source submissions if you want to take a test drive and see what your funding will be going toward

another update on our Android local AI bounty (following up on [this comment from a few days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1wqhryb/comment/pc75isw/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button))
the bounty is currently at 1.139 ETH (\~$3000) following Vitalik's contribution
I'm now trying to boost it with another 2 ETH via this Nouns DAO proposal: [https://nouns.wtf/vote/999](https://nouns.wtf/vote/999)
if anyone here is a Nouns voter or has connections within the Nouns ecosystem, I'd love your support! there's \~48 hours left to cast a vote
and worth mentioning that if you like the mission of funding a 100% offline local AI for Android, you can add ETH to the pot directly via: [https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/31](https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/31)
we already have some great open source submissions if you want to take a test drive and see what your funding will be going toward

\*\*Disclosure:\*\* I'm Kevin, ETC Community Manager at Classix. Istora, Classix's co-founder, published this essay on classix.dev yesterday. I'm summarizing it here so it can be discussed where the community actually talks. Full essay: https://classix.dev/the-praxeology-of-ethereum-classic
\*\*The idea\*\*
Think of a chain in three layers. Layer 1 is the protocol. Layer 0 is the social layer: developers, miners, exchanges and users. Layer -1 is the set of principles beneath the people, the part that doesn't move when the social layer does. The essay argues that ETC's principles are that bedrock, and that they follow step by step from one fact.
\*\*The argument\*\*
1. Blockchains exist. People pay fees to use them, even though a chain is a slower, more expensive database than a conventional one.
2. The only reason to pay extra is that nobody can stop it. If you don't need that, a regular database is cheaper.
3. It has to be unstoppable by anyone. If one organization can stop the chain, it's that organization's database, whether or not it ever uses the power.
4. So decentralization has to run through the whole stack: clients, pools, mining hardware, exchanges, RPC endpoints, explorers and funding sources. The social layer's job is to keep reducing single points of failure.
5. Neutrality: the protocol shouldn't privilege any party, because a privileged party can be pressured. Mining shows what this looks like. The protocol doesn't know who a miner is, and the reward goes to whoever produced the block.
6. Ossification: every hard fork is a window for capture, so forks should only happen for technical reasons.
7. The Crypto-Decentralist Manifesto and the Declaration of Independence, both written within weeks of the DAO fork in 2016, record these principles as the reason ETC exists.
The essay's claim is that each step follows from the one before. Deny a step and you're left with either a worse database or a proposal that defeats its own purpose.
\*\*What this means for Classix\*\*
An organization is the kind of bottleneck the steps above warn about, so our test for anything we take on is whether it leaves ETC depending on us. We're publishing what we run so anyone else can run it, we're funded voluntarily rather than by any cut of the protocol, and we're explicitly not official. We don't speak for the chain.
\*\*Question for the sub:\*\* Which step would you push back on? The argument only works if every step holds, so I'd rather hear where people think it breaks.