The Ethereum Foundation is officially a corporate suicide cult

By Amy Castor and David Gerard Video, podcast Ethereum is the normal business-like crypto, right? Not like those bitcoin weirdos. Approximately 100% of holders are in it for the money. Fine. The Ethereum Foundation is the non-profit that runs the Ethereum blockchain and its crypto, which is called ether. The Foundation is a little bit weirder. Like that time they demanded all staff sign a suicide pledge and threatened to fire anyone who didn’t sign. You might think it was a bit of a cult. In March, the Foundation published “The Ethereum Foundation Mandate.” The document set the governance of Ethereum for the next one thousand years! [Ethereum Foundation, PDF, archive] The 38-page mandate is full of cheerful anime characters wandering psychedelic landscapes. The text is about how much we need extreme anarcho-capitalist self-sovereign identity for all the people of the world! Or at least the ones who bought some ether. Page 11 includes the “Source Seppuku License,” which demands signers…

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