Rant below:
If I may, I would like to share my thoughts on this Cardano drama with y'all.
Now I know I'm not a representative or an intelligence for blockchain or Cardano, and my opinion may mean nothing to many of you, but I figured instead of leaving sassy comments on people's posts I would just lay out my thoughts in one place. Feel free to respond, or to even block me. It means little to me either way.
My perspective is this; in order to create something of value, you must first build it out of valuable parts, this is taking the value away from another areas, but reforming them into something better. Like building a rocket, you need to make a bunch of parts, then bring them together.
Consider this, Elon Musk spent years blowing up rockets and seeing where things break. Many would and did call his business failing, and yet he did not run away. He did not cave to the court of public opinion, and he didn't let the scientific cabal dictate his exit.
Here we are today, and SpaceX is having the largest IPO in history. Not because he built the best thing the first time, but because he had a vision for the best thing, and didnt stop despite lack of funding, near bankruptcy, and a majority of the financial world calling him stupid. Yet the man who blew up rockets day after day, and swore at detractors and naysayers, now sits atop the financial hierarchy as the world's wealthiest man. He did it with conviction and staying true to his beliefs.
Cardano was started with similar principles. There was a collective vision of the future, of the chain, and of the integration into the world's problems to provide solutions. The DReps who are running away are the same that would say Elon was insane for continuing after 6 rocket explosions, and they are the same who would have sold Amazon stock in '01.
Now, not saying these people can't make individual choices, but to state that you still believe in the vision, but lack the fortitude to continue through the rough times, is contrary to the whole crypto ethos in the first place.
The Coin Bureau Cabal artificially suppressed ADA hype and they led vicious attacks through their subsidiaries and paid influencer networks. They steered normies into ponzis then hid behind the "NFA , DYOR" shield claiming they only provided information to the best of their knowledge.
So your choice is to leave? To hang up the dev kit and shy away in the fiat mines you heralded as the past.
Conviction takes the ability to withstand storms and turmoil.
Elon Musk didn't quit, he kept searching for the parts that failed and he made steps to correct.
There is too much drama in Cardano, true, but is that a reason to stop fighting? Will you just let the drama continue and let the Karens win?
You all believed. Once upon a time, you all believed. Yet I keep seeing these community members and DReps, they say despite believing in the ethos, they can't stand the bad actors.
So your choice is to seceed to them? Let them win? Excuse my language but that's fucking pathetic. What happened to Cyberphunk, what happened to taking on a corrupt system and restoring power to the masses? What happened to "the network disincentivises bad actors"?