Bizarre Ethereum Foundation anime letter blamed for mass resignations
Fulton claims that 79 employees voted to remove that section, with one employee citing “a colleague lost to suicide the year before.”
Buterin allegedly promised “significant changes.”
However, the version published on the EF website maintained the Source Seppuku License.
Furthermore, the foundation chose to record it permanently on the Ethereum blockchain, with the suicide pledge intact.
The complaint also alleges that EF Co-Executive Director Bastian Aue insisted that every employee must commit to the mandate or the foundation would assume they had resigned.
Fulton and one of her colleagues, Trent Van Epps, then sent the board of the EF a letter signed by 53 members of the “Protocol cluster” which “declined to affirm [the Mandate] under coercion” but stated that they didn’t resign.
Subsequently, Fulton’s employment was terminated.
Buterin and Fulton apparently had a conversation after her termination during which he stated that the question he was struggling with was “what kind of dynamics you want to reward inside of the EF.”
He was also apparently concerned that “if you reward making a stink with outcomes, then everyone will know that essentially making that kind of a show both internally and externally is the way to cause outcomes inside of the EF.”
Protos emailed the EF for comment on this lawsuit, but it did not immediately respond.
