Jesus Fucking Christ.
The decomposing corpse of the blockchain cult is getting even weirder than it was at the peak of the mania.
The mandate’s visual aesthetic — the anime and other illustrations — reflected imagery from a controversial online figure who was known to promote “white nationalist ideology and disturbing pro-anorexia content,” according to the lawsuit.
When an Ethereum Foundation board member objected to the aesthetic, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin responded that “the controversialness (sic) of those aesthetics is itself part of the point,” according to the lawsuit.
After demanding that employees agree to the mandate, Bastian Aue, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, defended the suicide pledge to employees as “part of the artwork of the mandate.”
It was, he said, “a cultural reference like other elements in there. Chosen deliberately, but not meant to be taken literally.”
“We deliberately referenced white nationalism when getting you to promise suicide if you don’t do as we say, but we didn’t mean it”
What the fuck? Lmao, cringe anime seppuku pledge?
Crypto bros are so pathetic.
What a pathetic way to lose ~50 employees/volunteers
Pretty worthless with the paywall
