Gaian Exceptionalism

Hi, I have done a great deal of work recently to support the growth and development of the cosmos hub. This work spans the realms of both software development and political advocacy. I have a few points that I would like to address before I largely leave Gaia to the icf. Yesterday I was told by Rick Dudley, someone I respect, that I was isolating myself from a community. The trouble is, that there are some types of communities, which repeat the negative patterns seen in the majority of human commerce globally, that I don’t desire to be affiliated with. Over the past 7 months, I have been questioning both publicly and privately, at the request of the ICF, the delegations that are made by the ICF. I believe that these delegations by the icf break the competitive marketplace for validation on the cosmos hub, with the best example being the validator that I like to call the random string, here is a link for your perusal: Mintscan From even a cursory examination of that validators voting record, we can clearly see that they do not participate in governance, they charge four times the market rate commission, and they have a very large delegation from the ICF. They do not: •…

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