Guy 🪖
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Guy 🪖
@guy_nale
A snake dev 🐍 who automates tasks, scrapes the web, and builds bots to help businesses streamline workflows and focus on what matters.





A Lesson in Governance: "Sybil," "Grift," and the Rules You Ignored @hoskytoken since we’re throwing around big words like "Sybil" and "Grift" to justify stripping voting rights, let’s actually open the dictionary and then the Intersect Bylaws. You seem confused, I know you’re not but this should be there. 🧵👇 1. What is a SYBIL Attack? Definition: A single adversary creating multiple fake identities to gain disproportionate influence (Douceur, 2002). so @hoskytoken @IntersectMBO there is an appropriate influence meant for just a certain circle of people? Wow 🤯 Key Element: Fake identities. One person pretending to be 100. The Reality: The members you cheered on banning are KYC-verified individuals. They attended the @Cardano_CF CBCA course. They joined the African Catalyst Townhall onboarding. They are distinct, real humans who paid their own fees. @hoskytoken The Lesson: A group of real people voting the same way is not a "Sybil Farm." It’s called a Constituency. 2. What is a GRIFT? Definition: A petty swindle; obtaining money through deception without providing value. The Reality: These members PAID to be here. They paid membership dues. They invested time in education (CBCA). They participated in campaigns. The Lesson: Paying to participate in a system you studied isn't a grift. “Taking their money and then deleting their votes because you don't like who they voted for? That is the grift” @hoskytoken @IntersectMBO .3. The Bylaws You Ignored (Article 2, Section 8) You love "trustless" systems, right? @hoskytoken Then why are you celebrating a centralized breach of contract? Intersect Bylaws, Art. 2, Sec. 8: Suspension requires 15 days' written notice and a Board Hearing. What Happened: Retroactive suspension. No notice. No hearing. Just an email after the audit realized "the wrong people won. "4. The "Vote Buying" Myth vs. Policy Intersect’s own Voting Policy has a mechanism to stop vote buying: The 3-Month Rule or the KYC rule was put in place to prevent flooding, members must hold membership for 3 months (Committee) or 6 months (Board) or get KYC verified before voting. These suspended members met this. They waited. They qualified. They followed the exact anti-Sybil rules Intersect wrote. If they were a "farm," why did the system clear us to pay and vote? 5. The Conclusion You call it a "Grift" because you can’t admit the truth:. • We built a community. • We educated them with the Foundation's own materials. • We showed up. If "Decentralization" to you means "Only people I like can vote," then stop pretending to be a guardian of Cardano. “You're just a gatekeeper for the status quo.” Blockchain is trustless. Your "audit" was not. 🫡












