Couple of points I wanna make. First of all, @ek826 you painted a bullseye on TGF the moment you centralized LUNC governance through it and made it the de facto âofficial orgâ through which most (if not all) of spending and payouts route. So you shouldâve expected any discrepancies would be scrutinized to death - as they should. Thereâs a lot of peopleâs hard-earned money flowing through this blockchain, and this being crypto means trust isnât a factor in the equation. It never was, and never should be.
The community will analyze the data youâve provided, and I thank you for it.
Regardless, I personally think itâs incredibly dishonest to bill and advertise an org as a ânon-profit grants foundationâ while handling exactly 0 grants and taking money from an already impoverished LUNC CP to fund admin/clerical salaries which contribute absolutely nothing tangible to the chainâs revival or growth. I donât care how many charts Steve & Marco output in a week, itâs all nonsense compared to skilled software engineers we couldâve had for the same price. What happen to all the projects advertised when the org launched? What happen to the initiatives that were supposed to help the chain grow? Literally nothing came from any of those promises, yet the clerical staff was handsomely rewarded for it nonetheless.
Furthermore, thereâs a ton of issues with how you, Marco, and Steve handle interaction with the community. You ignore literally hundreds of questions across multiple threads pertaining to issues tied to TGF (please donât feed me the spiel itâs separate from the JTF), only to pop in here the moment someone brings the orgâs legal standing into questions. It seems your priorities are skewed: the org exists to serve the blockchain and its holders (as it should), not the other way around. Iâd suggest you comb through the various TGF/JTF-related threads on Agora with the same zeal youâve demonstrated here, and answer the community (itâs nice to at least know you at least read all the questions, even if you donât deign to address them).
Finally, paying a wanted international fugitive (âSupermanâ) with community money with the foreknowledge of his status â and using a nonprofit org to do so! â means youâve introduced legal contagion into the LUNC ecosystem simply via association⌠and with it, endangered this entire blockchain, as well as every holderâs investment. What do you think will happen if the SEC gets wind of this? Or the IRS? This itself is reason enough to terminate TGF, return any outstanding money to the LUNC CP, and nullify all the orgâs currently-active proposals, ASAP. Nevermind the $120,000+ you asked to fund the legal liability warchest for the TGF roster (this is an issue which doesnât impact anyone in the LUNC community besides literally a handful of doxxed US citizens running the org itself, meaning you introduced a problem that requires even more money to solve despite there being no such issue prior to it). If humans were tautologies, the three of your heading TGF would be prime examples.
I wonât even get into the whole issue of phantom âdevelopersâ and bloated OPEX budgets listed in the latest L1 prop, itâs so trite and cliche at this point that Iâm just wondering what backroom deals yâall secured with validators to move such a parody of a proposal through governance. I suppose time will reveal all - as someone said in one of these threads, itâs the sharpest knife.
All in all, I have to say this whole TGF âexperimentâ has been a massive disappointment.
Iâll tag all 3 of you in an effort to solicit a response, but I canât say Iâll be holding my breath.
@ek826 @Marco_Ferreira @LuncBurnArmy
Shalom!