Wow. I hadn't seen that. I just read about it and it reinforces my view that cryptocurrency is appealing to the wealthy because of the promise that whoever controls all the tokens and resources (ie: wealth) controls all the rules.

When you look at some of the issues with ICANN at least there's some chance that public opinion can influence them. The .org scandals show this. Imagine if the whole system was "code is law" and the existing executives and board members owned a controlling interest of "vote tokens".

I don't understand why people would want a system like that with crypto domains. Do they think that a system where $1 = 1 vote is going to be democratic?

> was fired from his job and banned from Twitter

And it probably also has to do with the fact that he has an enormous share in the governing DAO for ENS, so even being fired from a job doesn't mean he's gone.

But yeah, being associated with someone who doubles down on past homophobic and transphobic statements probably isn't all that attractive to a bunch of people

Brantly Millegan is not banned from Twitter, his profile is still up (he's not active anymore though). https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan