Ironic that libera's governance was set up under a similar spirit.

Though frankly if Andrew Lee had ghosted freenode entirely that would've been a vast improvement overr what actually happened.

Do you know if the money wasnt stolen?

I'd be quite interested to hear the Radix Projects governance plans to prevent a future single point of failure again. Not being able to contact the bill payer on the last project isn't helplessness, it's a failure of the created organizational structures to have planned redundancy, succession and legal accountability.