@Super interview on Telegram
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 2:19 PM]
Thank you Super for your nomination to the CFC role! You were the first one to spring into action! You mentioned that you were an early 2017 member since the Zcoin days, could you share a bit about your experience and how you found out about us? Also what has kept you in the community and what made you step up?
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 2:25 PM]
Yes sure. I discovered Firo when I began mining early 2017. At the time I was new to crypto but I liked the concept of privacy currency and the fact that I can send it without anyone finding out who am I. Afterwards I made few MN when Zcoin introduced them and have been holding ever since. What has kept in the community is the passion of the project and the strong believe in privacy and not trying to just please people just to succeed in the charts but truly to deliver and incredible product.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 2:26 PM]
Thank you! That means a lot! Any thoughts on the recent proposed tokenomics change? Also what are your views on the creation of the Community Fund?
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 2:34 PM]
In regards to the CF I think is an amazing idea and look forward to see it put into action. As much as I believe in people helping out I also must be real and recognise that in this times we live in is hard to get people to do something for free as they are occupied with their day to day living and in most cases trying to earn to survive. So if people can get paid for helping the project move forward I believe is a step in the right direction. Many things require time so if one has the time but doesn’t had the expertise to do it him/herself then the CF can help achieve wherever is needed.
In regards to the tokenomics proposal I don’t see it as an issue due to the fact that we are not increasing supply. In fact I believe it may help the project as we need funds now to build and try to pop up in the space. Most don’t understand that we are fighting with projects that come up with billions of free coins and have an endless funds to do wherever. That is not the case with Firo so we must think, adapt and move forward.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 2:40 PM]
Something a bit controversial here! In your post you mentioned that rehrar’s position as a friend to me is a conflict of interest and I see where you’re coming from and therefore excluded him initially. After some other community members also wanted to see him, I placed him back in the nomination list.
I also introduced several other rules to limit the conflict of interest issues where obviously if it’s relating to Cypherstack (Diego’s company) he has to recuse himself from voting. I also introduced a higher requirement instead of simple majority should the CFC vote to make available some of its funds to the core team during this tough time.
What are your thoughts on this?
Honestly from my point of view, we were lacking qualified candidates and therefore wanted someone who was pretty familiar with the project as a candidate.
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 2:53 PM]
To be honest I have no issue who is in the CFC as it’s true we need all kind of people with different knowledge. My issue will be with all of a sudden for the CF to constantly be used for things that are just one direction oriented.
What I’ve seen in the past (not in FIRO) also is that if you have someone with a little well known name people tend to just follow what that person says. But in reality no one person knows everything and one can be good at coding but the other can be good at marketing. But some people think they are good at everything (which they are not) and also some people think that wherever they say should happen.
My views is that the CF should be open to different ideas that we should try and not expect to see results immediately or ever but that does not mean they were not good ideas.
In regards to the qualified candidates I agree we need people that a familiar with the project but I also think we need people that have been through think and thin. Over the years I see like few of the people are still here and the rest are new people that keep changing with every bull/bear cycle.
Btw, although it maybe controversial (and even if I am not one of the CFC) I do believe whoever it is should be compensated for their work. In life people think and act different when they are getting paid vs when they are not. Many say I will do this and that for free but in their mind they think from where can I benefit.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 2:55 PM]
Yes, although I have no say, I wouldn’t object to the CFC receiving some remuneration especially if the workload gets higher and Firo’s price goes up so there’s a surplus. There should be a remuneration eventually but that’s not for me to weigh in nor did I want to talk about it in the first iteration given the current conditions.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 2:56 PM]
If you became a CFC member, what would be the first few things you would use the fund for?
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:02 PM]
[In reply to Firo-chan Yap]
It’s hard to say as we suppose to get proposals from the people and see which one is the best and likely priorities but ideally to start with maybe some of it go towards the Team in order to push with the current situation. We are way off breakeven point. Other than that if we haven’t raised the funds for Akram to go and present sparks would love for the CF to help with that. Help with audits that need funds. Complete wallets (if they require funds including for IOS) Ideally first we need to put the things that are already been worked being finalised and then take it from there.
So many things but so little funds 
hopefully eventually we can structure the house with the solid foundation and start building the floors up.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 3:02 PM]
Not necessarily, CFC can initiate its own proposals!
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:06 PM]
[In reply to Firo-chan Yap]
I personally would like to see our website being translated to few more languages and that’s one think I was thinking to make a proposal and if funds are given I can do it. I think as cryptocurrency that has no borders is important for people to be able to learn about us and to do that we need the info on our site translated like Monero.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 3:07 PM]
Nice! While not a CFC responsibility, any thoughts on governance of Firo?
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:12 PM]
I think it it’s important in order to protect anyone involved with Firo and especially the people that work for Firo but also anyone that has invested in Firo. Ideally I would like to see it as decentralized as possible with no one or group being able to somehow being in control.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 3:15 PM]
Any thoughts on how might that happen? Some have suggested coin holding.
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:20 PM]
Unfortunately it’s a hard one. I believe it requires try/error. Coin holding, MN voting (like dash) etc all sadly can be controlled by whales as they have the funds to do so. Smaller guys can’t.
We can definitely see if the MN voting along side share mn voting works or can be made to work. If not we can then try the coin holding. Otherwise it will require in my opinion long and hard thinking if we really want to make it fair. It’s not as easy as some may think.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 3:20 PM]
What do you mean by side share voting?
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:22 PM]
In dash (crowdnode) the share mn provider anyone that has coins can vote which gives lots of voices. I think is a good idea especially when trying to include the small guys. The one with few coins that can’t own a full MN but do care for the future of the project.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 3:23 PM]
But how would you weight them? More coins = more votes?
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:24 PM]
Possibly 1 shared MN with let’s say 50 people in it. You see if let’s say 30 vote yes and 20 vote no, then that MN is yes.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 3:25 PM]
How do you determine ‘one person’ though since I can be one person and split my funds into many
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:26 PM]
It’s kind of like in a building live 100 families. When something needs to be done on the building all 100 families vote and wherever the outcome of YES/NO is that’s what’s done.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 3:27 PM]
Sure though I think at the end of the day it just means who holds the most coins get the most votes and would be reliant on third party providers to provide this ‘shared voting’ functionality. Establishing personhood or identity in a no-KYC manner is tough.
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:28 PM]
[In reply to Firo-chan Yap]
It’s definitely a hard one. To truly think that can be made a 100% fare is currently little over ambitious in my opinion. It’s not an easy task.
Firo-chan Yap, [24/5/2022 3:30 PM]
Cool! Well I don’t have any further questions thank you for your replies! Anything you want to add?
Super Dragoon, [24/5/2022 3:31 PM]
[In reply to Firo-chan Yap]
Thank you. I really appreciate the time and hard work you do.
To add: let’s put Firo on the map where we truly belong.