I’ve been listening to Bankless since DeFi summer, I’ve subscribed to the newsletter, and I’m essentially getting nothing from this DAO.
When I learned that there was going to be a subscription option, I was extremely excited to sign up - only to find that the only option to subscribe to the bankless newsletter was with a credit card from my bank. That… was not ideal.
I mentioned this hypocrisy on Reddit, I think I mentioned it on Twitter. I got a reply from the Bankless Reddit account that suggested I use Coinbase Commerce to sign up - but I looked everywhere and that never was an option that I could find. I mentioned this, but received no reply. “Oh well”, I thought, “I’ll just wait till I can pay with crypto, obviously that’s in the works”.
Then the shirt giveaway happened, still no option to pay with crypto. Then the ETH giveaway, still no option to pay with Crypto. I’m a principled person and this was silly to me, so I decided that I would wait.
Then the DAO announcement happened - the day after badges were claimed. That hurt. But I did get a small amount of BANK tokens (Which, I have to say, again, we’re bankless, how did this token name get approved?), and I heard that newsletter subscriptions would be rewarded retroactively at the start of June. “Okay”, I reasoned with myself, “Principles be damned, I want to participate in this community”. So I signed up. I think it was May 2nd. Literally the day of the DAO launch.
And now, after working 14 hours today at the job that I’m quitting at the end of this month, I happen to open the DAO page and find a new vote - one that completely erases me from any airdrop.
Great. My principles have cost me dearly. I want very much to be a part of this community. I love Bankless and everything that Ryan and David have done. But I feel like this DAO is already working hard to exclude people from participating.
So, if this proposal goes through, I’m out. I’m done. You clearly don’t want me here, because I was hours too late to get that precious fucking badge. Fuck it. I’m going to bed.