Ethereum Name Service Removes Core Team Member Brantly Millegan Over 2016 Tweet

Over the play the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) assemblage voted to region Brantly Millegan arsenic a steward due to the fact that of a tweet helium posted successful 2016 that precocious resurfaced. He volition besides beryllium removed from his presumption arsenic manager of operations of the decentralized autonomous organization's (DAO) corresponding ineligible entity True Names Ltd.

• In the tweet, Millegan wrote that “homosexual acts are evil. Transgenderism doesn’t exist. Abortion is murder. Contraception is perversion. So is masturbation and porn.”

• ENS gives the quality to constituent a domain sanction to a wallet. Users would beryllium capable to spell to a .eth domain sanction arsenic opposed to a analyzable wallet address. Domains tin beryllium traded arsenic non-fungible tokens (NFT). There are implicit 675,000 registered names, according to ENS.

• “Practically, it means that you tin person a sanction that you own, that has each the decentralization and censorship absorption and programmability of Ethereum,” Millegan told CoinDesk successful 2020 in describing the project.

• Millegan hasn't apologized for the tweet, citing his spiritual beliefs.

• In a post connected Discord, helium reaffirmed his beliefs and said he’s unfastened to moving with and being friends with a wide scope of people. He besides said that traditionally minded Christians, Muslims and Jews should not beryllium excluded from Web 3 – and helium has received messages of enactment from those who self-identify arsenic being accepted followers of these spiritual groups.

• As of precocious Sunday Pacific time, assemblage delegates from the ENS DAO voted to region Millegan from his presumption with a bulk voting successful favor.

• But the ballot wasn’t unanimous, with immoderate delegates informing astir the dangers of "cancel culture" oregon the irony of a decentralized work centralizing astir the dependable of 1 person.

• “Brantly contributed to ENS occurrence and deserves to beryllium here. I respect the information that helium stands by his words and doesn’t propulsion the accustomed 'It was 4 years ago, I’m antithetic now, blablabla,'” wrote "victorstark" successful the discussion thread. “Woke and cancel radical are much toxic than Brantly ever could be, axenic herd mentality astatine work.”

• Nick Johnson, laminitis and pb developer of ENS, said mid-Monday Asia clip that Brantly would besides beryllium removed from the DAO's corresponding ineligible entity.

• "Brantly has been a valued squad subordinate of TNL for the past 3 years. However, arsenic a squad we felt that his presumption with TNL is nary longer tenable," Johnson said successful a Twitter thread. "Many of you were wounded by Brantly's comments implicit the past 24 hours, and we powerfully judge that ENS should beryllium an inclusive community. Going guardant we'll proceed to bash everything we tin to guarantee that remains the case."

• Johnson did not respond to a petition for remark from CoinDesk. Brantly has yet to marque a caller connection connected this development.

• The ENS token is up 4.5% to $20.76 astatine the clip of this writing, according to CoinMarketCap.

UPDATE (Feb. 7, 8:40 UTC): Changed lede, added 9th, 10th, and 11th bullets with caller accusation and punctuation from Johnson.