Anyway if this discussion itself was being called “armchair quarterbacking” then here’s the result of all that work “from the sidelines” (though it’s @Colin_Edwards who deserves all the credit):
- Confirming the goal of IOG going from 20 public pools down to 1… along with the revelation that this was hoped for in August, meaning that restructuring might now be considered overdue
- Confirming portions of that freed delegation from IOG will go to small & community pools
- Determination of personal contacts in both the marketing & the finance sides of IOG, who have offered to communicate with SPOs personally (rather than through any union “liaison”)
An indirect outcome of this discussion has been @IOHK_Tim’s reminder of a message I myself missed the significance of on Twitter… from @benohanlon, whom he characterises as the “concierge to small pools”:
I think this information & these contacts have been a useful, promising, and unique result of this whole discussion… and worth every bit of determined effort to open these lines of communication, as we each go about things in our own way. 