This accusation has reared its head a few times in the last week or so. As @borovan has pointed out, I’m not being bribed (I take my role as an active governance participant very seriously). There’s a big difference between bribes and bounties, and there’s a big difference between comic effect and matter of fact.
I posted my SYBILing nodes thread weeks before my first DMs with Adam, and that thread was preceeded by months of Subnet Management reviews where I was slowly refining tooling to pick up on commonalities between node providers. There’s still lots to do in that respect, and I’m glad the NP-clusters idea has been picked up by DFINITY.
Before @borovan and @Thyassa picked up the SYBILing nodes issue and started making waves, very little was happening. I think the community as a whole owe them a massive thanks (I’m certainly thankful).
As for my relationship with Wenzel, this is steeped in its own history that you can read about here, here and here. In a nutshell I’m extremely pro-decentralisation, pro-meritocracy, anti-trust (it’s inevitable that we’d clash horns).
Counter to what some people think, the last few weeks is what effective decentralisation looks like. The community keeping itself in check. Harmony, group think and agreement should not be the status quo (that’s what complacency looks like).
In the interest of transparency and clearing my name, this is what is being misconstrued →
Just to be absolutely clear, my actions are motivated by wanting the IC to succeed.
I’ve not received funds from Adam, but if he genuinely wants to I’d gratefully ask for it to go to the ledger account for my 8-year-staked LORIMER known neuron. This would make his very kind gesture transparent as it would be on full public display. I hope that anybody questioning my integrity would see this as a sign of my long-term commitment to the IC.