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> You can also: - run for office - organize people politically I think parallels to this are also happening in crypto networks, e.g. a user deciding to participate more directly in Eth protocol governance by sitting in on R&D and core dev calls, joining EIP discussions, using merge testnets, and generally just becoming a sort of public figure within the Eth community. (Also, this may go back to citizenship, I cannot…
You seem to discard that in a democracy, one person should get one vote. In crypto, you vote with your wallet – due to network effects – so the richest/most powerful weight the most.
For example governance of ETH is off-chain, and there is no token voting. Developers come to a consensus and create new spec as a fork, clients and ecosystem may decide to follow that new spec and implement the changes (or they may fragment, as was the case of ETC).