The fun part is that the owner of Aeternity calls himself Godfather of Ethereum.
https://medium.com/@yanislav/king-of-bitcoin-godfather-of-et...
Why I left
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#62Particularly alarming section: > August 17- Aeternity finally makes an offer to hire me that I am comfortable with. In the process of negotiating my employment, the owner of Aeternity was asking me technical questions, and the honest answers I gave made him angry. He wished that universe worked differently, and he blamed me, the messenger of bad news. The owner of Aeternity was so upset by the technical limitation, t…
The vagueness of that part reminded me of a time I worked at a small startup several years ago, and the owner got angry about something and kicked a chair which partly hit a couple of us. The damage was pretty mild but one of us did get banged in the knee so he limped slightly for a couple days.
I can only really imagine something similar happened in this case too
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like they broke, or tried to break, his leg. Seems reasonable to me to want to fight back.
Honestly to me, it sounds like a junior (or at least, a non-business-savvy) person tried to extort somewhere in the area of $3.5 million from the owner of their company. In this instance, "trying to break his leg" may have been more like "got shoved and fell over" (Which to be fair, could be a reaction someone might have if their employee came into their office demanding several million dollars - who knows). I don't…
I was kinda more thinking the other person kicked a garbage can or chair and it banged the authors knee or something. Had similar happen at a start up years ago and seems more plausible than being attacked.
If he were attacked like I think he wanted it to sound then a lawsuit would probably get him the money he wanted
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#64The only conclusion I can draw from this is that it is written by someone who is highly immature and/or unstable. I mostly feel sorry for their investors who purchased yet another block chain hoping to make a quick buck with likely little to no diligence on what they buy. The more I hear about blockchains, the murkier it looks to me.
The author is effectively ousted from the "company", physically assaulted, signs nothing, then spends '5 days' with 'the Aeternity lawyer' mulling over a contract? All of this after not being paid while their colleagues are being 'paid regularly.' My question is what/where is the legal void that this company existed in?!
Assuming you believe the OP. Things like "I didn't get paid so I am selling 0 days", or "I had to leave Europe to be safe because I fought with a guy", don't help me taking it seriously. Might be true. Might not be true. The only certainty is that this guy is a nutter.
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#65> that he did something to me that both scared and injured me. I no longer feel safe working with this person. I am walking with a limp a week later. OP is happy to spill some pretty high-level corporate beans, but not detail a physical assault... I don't really know what to take from this article in all honesty. I feel there's a lot being left unmentioned.
I think he's just omitting embarrassing details to be nice, as can be expected of someone who's just learning what entrepreneurs are like, and/or to avoid having to prove accusations in court.
He's proved himself naively optimistic enough to make very valuable work before getting a good contract rather than after.
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#66>Things I have done for Aeternity If this really was implemented entirely by one person, they have no moat. >Instead the anonymous owner of Aeternity is deciding how the money is spent. Yeah, that's how capitalism works. The person with the capital owns you. And now, I look into my crystal ball... I see the anonymous owner is going to sue you for running off with his intellectual property and starting a competitor wi…
It seems as if the author might possibly own the IP here, having not been paid, nor contracted away copyright and other interests AFAICT.
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#67I had a brief conversation on github with Zack few years ago over cryptocurrency implementation, great guy and really knowledgeable about cryptocurrency. Knowing Aeternity had him on the team, I immediately told my friends who invest in cryptocurrency they should pay close attention to it. I also wanted to look into its code and help, but I'm not an erlang programmer. To be honest, when I checked Ae's official websit…
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. -- Fred Brooks
As a programmer, I'd be happy in a team to be the only programmer as long as the rest of the team are experts in their domains.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Should of never written that one sentence, that is at the very least a plain as day admission and now he will hold any blame for any exploits used against Aeternity, whether involved or not.
Seems like author is in a completely different part of earth where that court system will not affect him.
While that is true, it is also alarming that he would have to relocate completely over this whole matter. Curious where in the world your own words involving Computer Misused (or similar law) being admitted are not legally binding, especially considering the implications.
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#69I had a brief conversation on github with Zack few years ago over cryptocurrency implementation, great guy and really knowledgeable about cryptocurrency. Knowing Aeternity had him on the team, I immediately told my friends who invest in cryptocurrency they should pay close attention to it. I also wanted to look into its code and help, but I'm not an erlang programmer. To be honest, when I checked Ae's official websit…
I'd hire them as PA's and customer support tbf, making sure I'd get the main stake (at least 51%) of the company. But you'd need an independent third party (like a lawyer) to make sure they don't screw you over, unfortunately. Make sure they work for you, not with.
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#70huh? I swear I just looked at the team page 5 minutes ago and still saw Zack listed as "Tech Lead", where now it shows Joel Reymont as CTO