Here are some thoughts on the need for oversight in the election of a third member to the AADAO Oversight Committee:
1. The hub’s first election is currently being conducted live on-chain — this social consensus experiment is unfolding ahead of implementing the multiple-choice…
It's legit. The lawsuit has been dropped.
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
I applaud AiB for being open to what they do not want to hear, and withdrawing the lawsuit. We urgently need alternative dispute…
I heard All in Bits is hiring aggressively.
Candidates and new hires, good luck.
Here's a look at
@github
history of employees: Fired v. Promoted/Re-hired.
For the projects that value commits and contributions - I know a super talented
#Cosmos
SDK dev ready to work again.
DM…
ATOM1 *must* RENAME & REBRAND.
Tl;dr: "You can share my code, but you CAN'T SHARE MY BRAND"
The ICF owns the trademark for $ATOM, and must enforce it's trademark to minimize user/consumer confusion.
Unlike copyright and patent laws, which were designed to incentivize…
NO on Proposal
#839
.
Reasons why.
In 2017, the Interchain Foundation was established with an endowment of $17M, consisting of 5,000 $BTC and 240,000 $ETH. To date, 88% of these tokens have been divested.
Remember that specific terms and conditions were mutually agreed upon with…
Notice to All in Bits: Please Stop Unlawful Use of NDAs
1/
@Allinbits_inc
, your corrupt NDA practices are well known.
Stop abusing confidentiality agreements and NDAs to conceal an established history of bullying, harassment, and discrimination at the workplace.
#Cosmonauts
: Please know, Ignite is a division within All in Bits (AiB). At present, we're actively negotiating terms of spin out as a new entity.
This is a New Tendermint decision:
@ilgooz
is not an Ignite team member.
Proposal
#839
is poised for approval.
In passing 839, we are illustrating a state of insufficient decentralization.
The
#SEC
has posited that networks that can be characterized as “sufficiently decentralized” might be exempt from securities classifications. However, the precise…
2/ We have filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Grace Yu, a former AiB contractor who has knowingly and relentlessly made false, disparaging statements about AiB while promoting a competing fork of one of our products and attempting to unfairly transfer its goodwill.
Why we vote Yes to Prop
#818
:
Equivocation faults arising from negligence are worrisome. The circumstantial evidence suggests, for two validators, their operational errors occurred due to unreasonably unsafe practices.
Regardless of purported absence of intent to do harm, it…
Jae Kwon tweeted about a mediation offer I didn't receive on 4/3. I received an offer by email on 4/5, and a physical letter on 4/6.
Communicating through my attorneys, we asked AiB to drop the lawsuit to demonstrate good faith. It's unheard of to serve a person papers and…
AiB is suing me in federal court for breach of non-disparagement. I'm of the belief the harm they perceive is self-inflicted.
They continue to disparage their own business by choosing unfair practices and anti-competitive behavior. This lawsuit is proof of intimidation as a…
How is it the "biggest" airdrop ever? On what basis?
He already said he'd slash ICF.
Slash all YES voters and validators.
He's also "proportionally" slashing himself bc he didn't vote w his personal $ATOM, and he delegates to several YES
#848
validators.
A successful fork is…
1/8
@JaeKwon
, the founder of Cosmos, has declared he will lead a fork of
@CosmosHub
.
If the fork happened, it would probably result in the biggest ATOM airdrop ever. And it would resolve years of political tension - very bullish for Cosmos Hub.
What you need to know 🧵
We're a bickering and opinionated lot in Cosmos. But, there's prevailing sentiment and unity around the fact that All in Bits should
#dropthelawsuit
.
AiB's charges are unsubstantiated. Their behavior harms the reputation of our network and the values that underpin the Cosmos…
@CosmKopernikus
@Allinbits_inc
AIB is suing me because I've been speaking about their anti competitive use of non competes to prohibit contributions to open source code.
You can read about the issues on
Irisnet founder is Harriet Cao. Incidentally, she's also one of four AIB board members. Idk if she had any involvement with their validator vote, but I'm grateful for
@irisnetwork
's YES on Prop 793.
Perhaps it's a signal.
@Provalidator
@EZStaking
@ubikcapital
@StakeLab
…
Since the Spellshape proposal was brought to the forum, I've been the target of relentless trolling and intimidation attacks, including phone calls to my home. Imploring those who have participated in slanderous and intimidating activities to please stop.
@CoinDesk
@cosmos
@jaekwon
This article is exemplary of negligence pervasive in crypto reporting. It's poorly researched and relies on quotes from sources who have made unqualified statements of conjecture.
When you're quoting "one observer" who claims the fork is bullish for $ATOM -- you have a duty to…
Let's be super clear. If you're voting YES to
#839
, you're funding more than "hub development."
You're subsidizing Informal Systems.
The hub is paying for **more** than its maintenance. It's paying to maintain Informal HR, legal and admin.
Read the details.
Proposal also…
Approving the current proposal without revision creates a troubling precedent in Cosmos hub governance.
We should not vote on a proposal that requests $5.7m when the real funding ask is $2.2m. Asking community to overlook the language and ask amount is inappropriate and makes…
If you're for radical transparency
@jaekwon
, why do you SLAPP former employees like me?
Do the right thing and
#dropthelawsuit
.
Or perhaps you prefer the radical transparency of discovery?
P.S. Can you reassure $ATOM community that you will not be selling $777,777.77 of token…
Withholding company property as "leverage" to force negotiation is at minimum coercion, and possibly extortion.
In many common law jurisdictions, such as Singapore (jurisdiction for
@notionaldao
) -- extortion is a felony crime. In SG, the attempt to commit extortion is…
@Cryptocito
It's a bottom-up ethos struggling against top-down devflow. Gatekeeping. And socio-economics of Cosmos-based crypto privilege incidental to an early contributor class.
But it's also conflict-avoidance, ironically enough.
Our community is also weirdly tilted with people…
A simple theory on $GNOT Christina:
@christinacomben
calls me "Grace," as colleagues do.
But
@jaekwon
calls me "Gracie."
Sounds like the CEO of
@Allinbits_inc
infiltrated an employee's Twitter account.
Would you let your boss take over your socials?
$GNOTChristina
#FreeDenis
Let's propose a process where new ICF Foundation Council members are confirmed via Cosmos Hub governance.
Not suggesting any changes to the foundation charter. It's an ask to leverage participation for mutually beneficial outcomes -- yield better decisions that can also rebuild…
Cosmos Hub software is published with APACHE LICENSE, VERSION 2.0.
Isn't it nice?
Having the freedom to fork.
Without permission.
Without "waivers."
#FOSS
$ATOM
1/Short Primer on SLAPP Suits Or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Getting SLAPPed
SLAPP is an acronym for a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
P.S.
@Allinbits_inc
SLAPPed me yesterday.
The hub is *not* "subverted. Subversion is the language of do-nothing dev divas.
Forget the vote outcome. The conclusion of
#848
is clear -- $ATOM tokenomics requires redesign. No one is happy.
What's so disruptive about economic + creative justice for musicians?
It's not.
@jointhepressure
is a return to more equitable distribution + monetization that existed b4 centralized platforms began eating everything.
We want to disrupt the idea this is a
#disruption
.
36 of 61 paragraphs contained in AiB's complaint are false and or misleading. This is the definition of a baseless pleading.
Paragraph 46 is special for its irony and lack of self-awareness. Jae Kwon and AIB do use legal threats to stifle the community. This is true. The…
AiB's lawsuit tells an American fiat court in the Eastern District of NY that core tech development is centralized and that it has a commercial interest in censoring innovations of it.
Does this sound like
#decentralization
#permissionless
#censorshipresistance
to you?
Do you…
Really disappointed to see
@informalinc
vote NWV on 791
@buchmanster
.
I urge you to read the lawsuit Jae filed in federal court, and consider the implications the pleading carries for $ATOM and the 'sufficiently decentralized' test.
791 is a CP spend proposal bc the CP exists…
Really disappointed to see this kind of litigious retaliation.
Cosmos is about creating a community computing revolution, about standing together to upgrade legacy systems.
We need to be better than this, work together constructively, and build a community of mutual respect.
What a bizarre statement.
The lack of self awareness from this organization is stupefying.
Bemoaning "lack of leadership" is a self implicating statement. Lol.
#848
is a situation of their own making. It is the consequence of their audible absence.
AiB squandered an…
7/ There is a clear lack of leadership in guiding the community toward making necessary decisions, and we fear this situation will continue to worsen. We are therefore working on a plan to improve this situation that we will be sharing with the community soon.
Rather than contributions to code, what we need from
@Allinbits_inc
is their contribution to our core culture.
67 Cosmos Hub validators agree.
Jae Kwon, please withdraw your lawsuit, and I'll go into mediation with you.
#dropthelawsuit
#PROP793
#FOSS
#FreeSpeech
We need to rethink 'abstain' as a vote option in hub governance. Currently, it contributes to quorum, which enables unpopular proposals to pass.
With respect to vote threshold -- bc 'abstain' isn't counted in either numerator or denominator, a 'no' vote can sometimes…
To me, every funding request on the hub should be read as a contract. It's a contract between the proposer and the community that authorizes it.
To me, because proposals require a period of deliberation (at times negotiation) on Forum, there's an implied "integration clause" to…
YES on
#818
is the cleanest vote.
@informalinc
revoted, and changed their NO to a YES.
7 validators have abstained.
ABSTAIN should not be a vote option on equivocation props, imv.
Cosmonauts: If you're blocked or previously blocked by Jae Kwon on Twitter -- I need your help.
➡️ reply to this tweet with your handle
➡️ provide concise reason as to why you believe you were blocked
I can use this information in response to All in …
Denis' waiver is bittersweet for me.
I'm happy he can now fork Ignite CLI without the threat of an AiB lawsuit.
But in advocating for his right to do so and by challenging
@Allinbits_inc
to level up its commitment to
#opensource
, I got hammered with a lawsuit instead.…
Update: after two months and several iterations, I received a waiver granting me permission to fork Ignite. I sincerely thank the Cosmos community for your support and commitment to open-source software 🙏
#PayGrace
is a success 🙏
We still gotta
#FreeDenis
.
Wtf is FreeDenis?
A
@cosmos
movement to keep
#OSS
development collaborative, competitive, innovative, censor/ship resistant, permissionless, and decentralized.
Enforcing non-competes in
#opensource
is dumb and dangerous.
Erik
@ErikVoorhees
, respectfully ask
@ShapeShift
to reconsider Abstain on Prop 793. Jae Kwon hit me with a SLAPP bc I've been criticizing AiB's use of restrictive covenants to limit dev contributions to open source code.
I think we are aligned on the importance of free speech…
Cosmos:
Wake the fuck up.
You forget one of your founders filed a complaint in SDNY earlier this year.
You forget the NY AG is an impassioned prosecutor and she hates crypto like she hates
#pale
#stale
Trump. She is the first regulator to allege that $ETH is a security for…
"Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car."
And memory will change and redefine the dream of $ATOM tokenomics.
Thankfully, there are aspects of Cosmos Hub governance that operates as metamemory -- albeit limited, it's an immutable record.
The…
@interchainfm
Another issue with the $5.6m is it represents an **additional ask** of public funds alongside an undisclosed sum
@interchain_io
has been giving
@informalinc
for 3+ years.
We’re still waiting for the release of ICF's Q2-Q4 2021 reports. And funding amounts teams received through…
📣 Calling ALL Developers
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@StarportHQ
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By staying open, we stay free.
Blockchains are implemented
#opensource
bc the openess of culture/codebases makes the security and reliability of our systems possible.
Proprietary software developed by private entities can be regulated.
#FreeDenis
✊🏼⚛️
2/ Your overly expansive agreements are unreasonable, non-specific, and oppressive.
An intimidation instrument used to suppress non-confidential information.
A tool you use to create fear.
Your unethical practices impair the ecosystem's ability to recruit and retain talent.
13/ Mainstream media & the globalist elite are perpetually orchestrating crises and noise to distract us so that they can roll out their own agenda, a great reset, CBDCs, and the ultimate in surveillance. Don’t let yourself get distracted - by them or by
@YuTangClan_
Thank you
@KevinGarrison
for being the first Cosmos hub validator to support Prop 791🙏🙏🙏
Please visit for translations of the full text available in the following languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Russian…
I'm not a dev. I don't have to be a dev to advocate for dev rights.
I'm the only named defendant. But I'm not the only person the lawsuit impacts. In fact, the manner of Jae Kwon's pleading has made all Cosmos devs notional defendants.
I'm getting sued. Not because my…
Prop 793 exists because our community can better navigate all that which is unprecedented with an established social truth about the fact that the lawsuit is wrong.
#dropthelawsuit
Everyone says let's "just keep building." Agree. But how do we keep building without the cooperation of founding orgs in enforcing and respecting free speech and
#FOSS
principles?
Open-source is more than a licensing structure. It's design. Philosophy. It's a culture. It's code…
3/For the past 27 days, I’ve witnessed how you routinely emphasize unenforceable NDAs to create the illusion of leverage to enhance your bargaining power over non-native English speakers, and employees who do not know their rights.
Stop.
On 4/3 Jae Kwon tweeted that he had already offered me a mediation letter. This is false. I received nothing.
Explain, then, why the letter I did receive is dated 4/5?
The only thing that happened on 4/3 is that I was served papers. An official summons to…
🪄🪄The spellshape team is withdrawing our proposal for dev tooling from the Cosmos Hub Forum.
For the complete letter to community, please see:
This is why: 🧵
Hey Ethan, I want to make sure this reaches you -- and thus, trying again. Please review AiB's filed complaint w your legal team at ICF and Informal.
I recognize there's much that is novel, unprecedented, and frankly -- absurd and awkward about this pleading. I urge you to…
Really disappointed to see this kind of litigious retaliation.
Cosmos is about creating a community computing revolution, about standing together to upgrade legacy systems.
We need to be better than this, work together constructively, and build a community of mutual respect.
@jaekwon
Hi
@jaekwon
Thank you for unblocking me.
- it sounds to me, like you've misread the arguments of the motion
- advice of my counsel is reflected in our response to AiB's complaint
- I disagree with your representations about mediation and or a settlement offer/s made
-…
@proofstake
@jaekwon
@Allinbits_inc
If the lesson learned means there's more fear and intimidation in circulation, this is not the correct lesson for our collective.
If the lesson learned enables censorship of code and speech, these learnings seem out of step w the Cosmos vision.
The lesson we need is one that…
In a SLAPP suit, winning is not the point. The point is to abuse the court system to effect silence, intimidation, and financial harm.
Telltale signs of a SLAPP:
✅️ claims are legally meritless
✅️ claims are factually meritless
✅️ filed in federal court to complicate…
7/ Interestingly one of the ways you know it's a SLAPP is because Sam Johnson came right out and said it. What he wanted was not remedy harm, but to shut Kathy up.
Here's the approved grant application for "Piloting Deliberative Governance for the Cosmos Hub," submitted by Antoine Vergne (Mission Publiques).
The proposal received a $60k grant from
@ATOMAccelerator
.
If you have questions, the grant recipients can be reached at:…
1/Yesterday at approximately 7:50pm EST, I received a letter from a person who claims to be a former AiB employee. Due to the litigious environment of Cosmos, s/he wishes to remain anonymous.
I'm unable to confirm if this person worked at AiB.
@gadikian
Thank you, Jacob. I believe in the power of conversation.
Folks tend to think Cosmos culture is broken and toxic. It's not. It's one person at the helm of a foundational org., and we need him defining less of what we are not.