I mean he is forced to remain silent, go soft, and (by doing that lend) support to a project which intentionally misleads its user base and attempts to place its investors in a jail to force them to become menial laborers (content curators), because he compromised his values for money.

In short, he has no more ethical high ground any more. Which he sold for a few $millions (assuming he can cash out before it collapses).

He can not criticize any thing I choose to do on my project. I will remind him he already sold he ethical standing to the devil. He has lead the way and shown all of us that we should do what ever we can to maximize the money we can get, regardless of ethics.

Btw, I salute him. I am an anarchist. More power to him. I hope this is the end of his (or let's say Monero's community) moralizing crap. Altcoins are not church. Instamines, premines, stealthmines, PoShit-Stake consensus systems, and what ever any one wants to do. Let them all suffer the free market outcome of their choices.

r0ach and I warned about Ethereum in the Ethereum Paradox thread. Smooth was conspicuously absent from that thread. I never saw smooth heavily criticise Ethereum. Yet those of us who did, were correct. smooth was all over Dash like flies on honey. Obviously because it was the competitor to his Monero project.

I've learned that humans are always tied to their vested interests, and I suppose that includes myself also.