I think this would be the best contract to sign. Including BS like that in it would make it easy to argue the contract is completely void. And given the timeline and threat of being fired. You can also argue it was obviously signed under duress.

That they would produce a legal document with a clause like that and in such a childish format speaks of the general sleaziness of crypto.

For anyone looking for the full PDF: https://ethereum.foundation/ef-mandate.pdf

Huh, a guy I went to college with actually worked for EF for about 5 years. Looks like he left and joined Argot Collective a few months ago, though. Though I’m curious how different the culture there actually is.

Looks like the funny money bros running the fucking cringeshit cult must come from 8chan.

This is on par with Aum Shinrikyo and Happy Science. Shades of Lychee Light Club.

Another reason to yell FUCK CRYPTO.

Man children are running everything!

Seppuku if they don’t keep things open source? Wow that’s messed up!

Titled “The Ethereum Foundation Mandate,” the document featured ethereal illustrated scenes of glowing lights and anime-style characters voyaging through dark forests. The pages featured white text against a navy blue background and were adorned with cartoon flowers, rainbows and diamonds.

And on page 11 — nestled between a winking anime woman and three yellow cats — was a suicide pledge.

Authors, maintainers, editors and distributors of “this software” would pledge to ensure the software remained free and publicly accessible, and would also vow to “take his or her own life with a sword upon failure to uphold any of the pledges in this license,” the illustration read. It was labeled “Source Seppuku License,” an apparent reference to a traditional Japanese ritual suicide.

To work in crypto you have to have a fairly high baseline separation from reality but this is impressive.

What a pathetic way to lose ~50 employees/volunteers

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.

“If you reward making a stink with outcomes, then everyone will know that essentially making that kind of show both internally and externally is the way to cause outcomes inside of the EF,” he said, according to the lawsuit, which cited a recorded conversation between the pair.

So he doubled down instead of removing a suicide pledge? Legitimately insane. Now he’s getting sued because of it. But from his point of view it was more about asserting who was in charge. He’s insane.

Ya all take this way too seriously. That seppuku license (definitely not enforceable in court btw) has probably been written after snorting a thick line of coke. These are crypto bros after all.