2013 I start AIB, initially created FtNox an exchange. I maybe wrote the first exchange that also could prove its reserves. I never launched because just about when I was going to, I discovered the 1988 BFT paper.
2015/2016 there is CryptoEconomicon in the south bay in california. I meet Chris Harborne and Ethan.
2016 I work with Ethan as a loan employee since I wanted to build the EVM on top of Tendermint, and Eris wanted a permissioned EVM. I teach everything I know about Tendermint to Ethan, and he asks his professor if he can write his thesis on it.
Around this time Ethan was still employed with Eris Industries. Eris Industries it was said that there were five cofounders, but the two public facing cofounders are Casey and Preston Byrne.
The LICENSE at this time was not well defined. I said that it will be published “at least as copyleft” but it’s pretty fucking clear that I am also interested in more liberal licenses, since I mentioned that I’m a Kopimist by heart. Look at the repo.
I spend 3 months to no avail to convince Preston and Casey to allow me to publish Tendermint as Apache2. Preston for being a lawyer is a complete clown and keeps pretending that dual licensing isn’t a thing.
I spend time developing ABCI just so that I can give up the EVM and the permissioning that I wrote, just so that I can retain the right to publish Tendermint as Apache2.
During this time I learn that Chris Harborne self admittedly saved George Soros in Thailand during the IMF incident, that he is ex-mi6, laundered money for Obama using jet fuel. I later learn that he is also the lead funder for Brexit. He is also clearly a major funder of Ethereum. He also apparently had a major role in Tether, the project that was founded by the infamous Brock Pierce. I’m not even going to talk about the string of deaths of my friends around that fellow.
Ethan helps out with the testing suite for Tendermint and fixing bugs (he didn’t design Tendermint, but to his credit he did help with the test suite), while I’m working to develop an investment strategy trying to raise from Bitcoin savvy VCs. None of them understand what proof of stake is.
As a last resort I came up with the Cosmos whitepaper based on my own ideas about inserting light client proofs in the blockchain itself. Tendermint was always designed for efficient light client proofs, when most of the blockchain world gave up on it.
2016 I write just about all of the Cosmos whitepaper save for the non-technical and Tendermint related parts of the whitepaper which I delegate to Ethan. I am the only one interfacing with up to five law firms eventually settling on MME to create a foundation, modeling off of Ethereum. I create the PLAN.md, the fundraiser docs, pretty much everything about Cosmos and the ICF and the plan, technical and nontechnical, were my creations.
MME says I need to have at least 3 people in the FC. They say they can provide a third neutral swiss board member. I say fine, I can invite Ethan in as the third. Mind you I was already being super generous with his equity in AIB for being a late cofounder. I started the company years before Ethan joined but I gave him half of what I had.
I travel the world pitching Cosmos, to the point that I vowed not to fly internationally again. Ethan never did.
Late 2017/2018 or so I take a break for a few months, I’ve been at this for four years. By the time I come back to full time I see that Ethan had hired a ton of managers. Ok, I can work with that.
Around 2018 shit gets really weird.
- Ethan starts harping about me leaving the ICF, ever since I brought it up once. He says I need to leave because of conflict of interest. More on the hypocrisy later.
- Executive retreat with Ethan, Zaki, and others five of us total. Zaki makes clear he doesn’t care about the mission but cares about making money for himself.
- At a crypto conference, OpenLibra is proposed by essentially a scammer who puts up my photo and Sunny’s as if we are core members of his project when it’s hardly the case. Ethan and Zaki know this and I warn them not to associate with the scammer but they don’t care.
- While checking up on OpenLibra I comment about the voting system they are proposing and I point out how it can easily be gamed, and they don’t care.
- I see Zaki starting to call himself cofounder of Cosmos despite only having joined after much of the genesis software was already complete, and he wasn’t even part of the coding team. I ask him to stop, but it keeps happening. Here were the engineers behind the hub software: Sunny, Dev, Chris Goes, Ethan Frey, Alessio, Rigel, and myself. Neither Ethan nor Zaki were involved.
- Jessy Irwin comes up to me and brags about how she invited her ex into her apartment on false pretenses to get revenge on him, and how she hacked into his computer and stole his bitcoins, and showed me the purse she bought with those Bitcoins.
- I tell this to Zaki and he insists that we need Jessy to complete the job. Her job was basically interfacing with HackerOne. I make an exception for Zaki, but refuse to give Jessy full superadmin privileges for Tendermint’s google apps, since with that you can do a lot more than her job entails.
- Zaki starts spreading FUD that I am imposing a glass ceiling, being sexually discriminatory to the whole company, despite knowing of the above. This is after he told me that his favorite book is the “traitorous eight”, and comments like “I’m like a god”, “that plan isn’t evil enough”. Clearly using dark magic for self gain.
- I propose the Virgo idea and Zaki approves, likes it so much he wants to present it himself to the company. This was after we agreed on a separation of roles; I will focus on new projects like Virgo, and he will help manage Cosmos. The separation of concerns was super clear.
- I let Ethan and Zaki take over the routine AIB/ICF negotiations since it’s routine work. By this time the ICF had over $100,000,000 worth of ATOMs and cash and crypto in treasury. AIB is right up there but has less. It should be clear to everyone that there is absolutely no problem. Next thing I hear the engineers lamenting that their job security is at stake. This makes no fucking sense, the ICF should obviously be supporting us and Ethan and Zaki were responsible. This ends up being blamed on me.
- The engineers of the company leave and the primary claim is lack of certainty of funding, and in an open letter they wrote some other non concrete things. Funny that it happens right after I start demanding that everyone report transparently on their conflicts of interests.
- I say once in our internal Slack in #general that we should strive to write excellent software that will be deemed worthy in the future, that we are doing the work of God. Once did I mention God there. Later Zaki resigns and claims that I harassed everyone in EVERY slack channel with religious harassment. Lies. Jessy Irwin claims ambiguously that I harassed her, in the height of the #metoo movement. I have zero record of sexual harassment even to this day. ZERO.
- For the kind of cultural problems, let me tell you of one A in Berlin who got so offended that I suggested in a private call that we need to hire more concurrency experts; he wasn’t an expert in concurrency and he simply could not stand the fact that I was implying that he wasn’t already an expert.
- Ethan and Jack were involved in a FUCKING SKUNKWORKS PROJECT IN AIB named “DOUBLEDARE” whereby they decided to talk amongst themselves about removing a key component of the entire project, AMINO, INSTEAD OF FUCKING FIXING IT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT TO. This was WHILE I spent months BRAINDAMANGING AMINO to be protobuf complete because they insisted on supporting protobuf. Even after I fixed it up 99% of the way they insisted on removing it. If you want to see what I mean, check out the difference between AMINO then and the new AMINO in gnolang’s TM2 directory. Complete insanity, not to mention deceitful AND ILLEGAL.
- Later I learn that Zaki is being sued for basically trying the same shit he did to me to someone else. The person suing him I trust, and he says Zaki threatened him saying “Do you see what I did to Jae?”. I’m not even talking about Shaun.
- Later I find out that Ethan had set up Informal with an outsized financial incentive for himself. This is completely ludicrous and insanely unethical because the entire ICF was founded for the purpose of public funding. Instead of giving 20% of AIB I GAVE HALF FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMONS FUNDING. This is reflected in the fundraiser plan and docs. It is illegal for FC members to enrich themselves this way but apparently Swiss law is full of holes just like their cheese. I suppose now that either MME is just super corrupt (they are getting sued by other projects) or their raison d’etre is to profit from their supposed neutrality.
- Later I find out that Jacob introduced Grace to Preston’s law firm. I was told that Preston sold the idea that he would help resolve the lawsuit faster because he knows me. Preston disappears from the picture and meanwhile their lawfirm makes ridiculous assertions such as, they won’t mediate until the lawsuit is dropped. This is ridiculous. Community is outraged.
- Later I find out that Brian Crain WAS ALSO AN EMPLOYEE OF ERIS INDUSTRIES. Had I known, I would have never accepted his entry into the FC. I would never give up control of the ICF to Eris, they were the ones who tried to fuck me over in 2016. Ludicrous.
- When I left the FC I said in no uncertain terms, in the strongest terms possible, that the person they wanted to replace me with SHOULD NOT be in the FC because they were an employee of AIB, and I have worked with them, and they DID NOT demonstrate the needed expertise. I suggested Sunny. They all completely dismiss my remarks and decide that it will be this person.
- This I haven’t verified but I later learn that this person’s father was a close friend a ghostwriter for Bill Fucking Gates.
- Brian Crain AFAIK is married to the daughter of an ex dictator of Turkey.
- Ethan Buchman was somehow magically best friends with Vlad Zamfir. He is part of the Creative Destruction Lab in Canada. I could say a lot more along these lines but I’ll stop here.
I haven’t even mentioned the stupidity of prop 69 (vm on hub), 82 (atom2), and now they want to remove the 2/3 bonding target for an IBC hub. These are just a FEW of the points I can recall of the top of my head after getting PTSD from the amount of CHICANERY and DECEIT.
Check Chjango’s recent expose with Jack Zampolin as an example of the culture I am fighting against.
Basically it’s hard not to see from my shoes that the project or at least the ICF was subverted by deep state forces.
- Why is Preston so often cited on ZeroHedge articles like he’s some paragon of truth?
- Who were the original “five cofounders” of Eris and what are their backgrounds?
- Why was their mascot the Marmot? Because they always planned on burrowing?
- Why did they rename from Eris to Monax? Maybe the connection to “destruction” is too obvious?
- Why do I keep seeing a connection to elitist backgrounds in all of this?
- A man wants to know.
I wouldn’t even care if they were doing their jobs.
It seems that they care more about Ethereum and Urbit.
They should all disclose their entire positions and all of their conflicts of interests.
But really they should just all resign.
The reason the trauma won’t just heal and go away is because it’s wrong to stay silent.
Gore2020 didn’t kill me, ATOM2 with Pepe the frog crucified didn’t do it.
They should take the L and fuck off and admit defeat before it’s too late.
Ultimately this is my mistake.
After George Soros fucked over Asia and even caused my Daewoo to collapse
where my dad held an executive position, I thought listening to Chris Harborne would be a good idea just because he was well connected.
I should have not listened to him.
I should not have created a Swiss foundation, or trust MME, or a “neutral board member”.
I should have fired Jessy on the spot.
I should have fired Zaki.
I should have said goodbye to Ethan.
I should have fired Jack.
I should have should have should have but at every turn there appeared to be reasons why it would be a bad idea… maybe if I give enough feedback or communicate with Ethan enough maybe Ethan would see. WRONG.
There are four types of people in this world.
- There are the entitled who grew up with silver spoons in a pot of evil.
- There are those who sell themselves to the above for Mammon.
- There are those who grew up in poverty but got lucky, or was privileged and had the right upbringing, and feel a responsibility to reduce human suffering.
- There is everyone else who never received or never gave themselves the chance.
Pick wisely, because the hour of judgement is upon us.
Do not compromise on your values and do not give people third and fourth chances.
Do not feel intimidated by numbers and gangstalking/social_engineering tactics.
There are some lines (like doubledare or stealing) that are immediate grounds for exile.