Ethereum's 'Bazaar' Development Model Will Pay Off in 2020

I am completely confident of this: 2020 is Ethereum 2.0's year of delivery.

How can I be so sure of this yet relaxed about not having all the details nailed down? Well, that's the magic of Ethereum's development approach.

Unless our development process is equally global, distributed, inclusive and empowering, then Conway's law - that systems reflect the structures of the organizations that design them - says we're going to fail.

To an extent, our approach resembles that of Linux, which has come to dominate much of the world's computing.

This is the "Bazaar" model of development described by Eric S Raymond in his classic work on open source software.

We're applying this approach to the development of the Eth2 protocol itself, its very design and the R&D behind it.

A report published in February recommended more "Centralization of control" over development.

We are very much on track with our expected development trajectory.

The real proof of our open, organic development approach will come in the first months of 2020.

We are on track to go live with ethereum 2.0's beacon chain, and the transition from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake will be officially underway - part of the vision of ethereum since its earliest days.