What Tezos and Bitcoin Have in Common

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The Tezos community has strong shared values, arguably as strong as bitcoin's.

He made the comment at TQuorum, a conference about the Tezos ecosystem organized by the Tocqueville Group.

While the bitcoin and Tezos communities have different values, Carter argued both groups are comparably well-defined.

"There has to be a shared narrative," Alison Mangiero, the Tocqueville Group's president, told CoinDesk in an interview after the panel, explaining why her organization gathered leading members of the Tezos community for three days in New York.

Before the public conference began, Mangiero gathered some of the most active participants in the Tezos blockchain for a conversation about values.

Culturally, Mangeiro noted that Tezos has been a very technical and academic project - one that has spent less time than others telling its story more broadly.

She highlighted the fact that the Tezos answer to ERC-20 tokens has been built and its non-fungible token standard is coming soon as well.

Tezos is built for change and these new features reflect that, Mangiero said.

Lukas Zuegg, a hobbyist baker who also teaches workshops on validating the blockchain, said Tezos bakers have enough of a shared commitment to participating in governance that they have no compunction about naming and shaming each other on social media for not voting.

Adrian Brink, a founder at Tezos startup Cryptium Labs, concurred that the network's key feature is "Constant, steady evolution, to go with the times."

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