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By Steven Anderson
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At 1:13 AM on February 19, 2019, Afri Schoedon tweeted “I did not quit social media, I quit Ethereum. I did not go dark, I just left the community.
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Afri Schoedon, Ethereum Core Developer, tweeted on Sunday, “no longer respond on Gitter, Skype, Discord, Slack, Wire, Twitter and Reddit.
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Afri Schoedon is one of the top Ethereum developer. He also stated: "I am no longer coordinating hard-forks, building testnets, or contributing otherwise."
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For now, all the tweets that were posted ever since 2017 have been deleted other than the tweets explaining that he is quitting Ethereum Community.
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Schoedon has been contributing to the Ethereum community ever since 2015. Several developers were shocked by this decision of Schoedon.
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Hudson Jameson, the community relations manager expressed his concerns by stating:
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"I'm so angry and disappointed of the Ethereum community. You ran out our best contributor for dumbest reasons. More people should have spoken in support.
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The destructive comments that triggered Schoedon’s decision came in response to the candid remarks from Schoedon last Thursday when he compared Polkadot and Serenity.
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He tweeted: “‘Polkadot delivers what Serenity ought to be.’ Change my mind.”
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The major focus agenda of Polkadot was to transmit information in the most secure manner with fulfillment of the initiated transaction.
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Earlier this month, there was a publication in Ethereum’s GitHub: “Phase 0 in v0.1 is relatively feature complete and approaching stable.”
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Polkadot Blockchain is being widely talked to be a threat to Ethereum. Primarily, Polkadot provides for security assistance, interoperability, and scalability.
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Yaz Khoury, the director of developer relations for Ethereum Classic Cooperative stated, “This mob behavior versus Afri and Parity [Technologies] is due to toxic tribalism.”
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Schoedon also stated that all of his Ethereum contributions have been unpaid except for the work he did on the Parity Ethereum Client.
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He however, concluded stating: "I did not hate Ethereum, I loved it."
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