# kaal:claim:3782214-010

**Claim.** Designing a single consensus algorithm is vastly easier than designing a consensus algorithm that can incorporate all future updates to itself, which explains why immature decentralized systems lack sophisticated governance mechanisms.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Source quote.**

> Designing a single consensus algorithm is infinitely easier than designing a consensus algorithm that will incorporate all future updates to the consensus algorithm.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Governance* (2021), Chapter 6. Governance, page 6

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214

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**Topics.** consensus-and-security, governance-design, dao

**Keywords.** consensus-algorithms, self-amending-protocols, governance-design, dao-governance

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