This is evidence of Gawlea leaving

If this was only a threat, that would not make it any less relevant
...of course.
When you decided not to pay me for a whole year of work, you forced me to leave. Classic trick when you want to get rid of someone.
I know, I know "nobody got paid this year" but:
1) you should have announced this at the beginning of the 1 year working period, not at the end of it;
2) all the team members should have been invited to take part of this discussion decision, instead of being discussed/decided by only "the wardens";
Tip: Saying "just the three people who are the most important for the protocol" as founder is disrespectful for the rest, imo (at least for the ones who are still working/helping the project).
Anyways, I understood the move: the price of the coin is too low to feed the whole team from the dev fund, so you (The Wardens) wanted to get rid of as much people as you could so more pie for "the wardens" coz everyone's else work is replaceable but the one of the core devs is not (I have a surprise, is not. Is just more expensive) and of course the classic: "the dev fund is for devs"... surprise again: development is much more than coding.
This being said, I prefer to do nothing for nothing, than work for nothing. That's why I left.
-gawlea-