Exclusive: MyCrypto CEO Weighs in on Rising Toxicity in Ethereum Community
By CCN.com: CCN spoke to the CEO of MyCrypto, Taylor Monahan, about the recent departure of Ethereum community leader Afri Schoedon. Schoedon played a crucial role in the development of Parity wallet but has now sworn off Ethereum development after a meme made him the subject of targeted harassment.
Taylor Monahan | Source: MyCrypto
Polkadot is an Ethereum scaling solution. Schoedon trolled the Ethereum community when he tweeted that Polkadot already does what Ethereum 2.0 wants to do. The backlash was swift, severe, and a bit ridiculous. Schoedon wound up quitting all work on Ethereum, though he’s kept his job at Parity, according to BreakerMag. Monahan says that Schoedon’s specialty, from way back, was helping people understand Ethereum.
“He’s been around since the very, very early days. I actually came into contact with him 2015 on the Ethereum StackExchange, where he was a master at answering all the questions. From there, his involvement on the community side and on the education side has only grown.”
“I’m not sure when, but at some point he became the release manager for Parity, which means that he manages all the releases. He writes the notes for the releases. He works closely with all the node operators, like the exchanges and ourselves, to ensure that we’re up to date. If we have any issues, we have a point of contact through him.”
‘Wait, People Are Blowing Up About This?’
Monahan says she was at EthDenver, one of the larger Ethereum conferences, when the news broke that Schoedon had quit Ethereum development.
“I missed the escalation of the drama. But someone at EthDenver was like, ‘What do you think of this Afri situation?’ They said he had tweeted something and they showed it to me. I had already seen it and was like ‘wait, people are blowing up about this?'”
