Effective immediately, I'm resigning my moderator position in this sub.

I do not feel the ABC project any longer represents my interest in keeping Bitcoin Cash an open, permissionless currency, a peer to peer electronic cash worthy of the "Bitcoin" in its name.

Its leadership has demonstrated an acute lack of sensibility to conflicts of interest amid the recent dev funding (IFP) debate. This is unacceptable to me under any circumstances.

It has further shown a lack of sensitivity for the need to build a robust, diverse client ecosystem, and instead has engaged in a continued campaign to discredit its main rival instead of building on its own strong proposals.

This behavior does not sit well with me - I consider it to be about as far removed as possible from the professionalism for which ABC supposedly strives.

My parting wish would be for ABC to succeed in its mission of scaling the protocol to be the best p2p cash possible, while doing one of two things:

1. monetize its services by capitalizing on its expertise in maintaining and enhancing its node software, doing so in a normal way that many other software companies in history have done successfully with open source - not in a way that seeks to change fundamental economic incentives of the Bitcoin Cash protocol.

2. failing (1), find back to its roots as an open source project capable of attracting talented developers.

- freetrader