The whole tech world is rife with playing the dance of "we're not just doing this for money, we swear!". But crypto is really the worst of the worst. People hate you because you lie and say that this is an altruistic undertaking. It is 100% about enriching yourself through regulatory arbitrage, so please just drop the act.

The suggestions under item III ("keep up with crypto or fall behind") seem to be less about education and more about perpetuating the echo chamber. Item VII ("someone must be offended, some of the time") seems like a rationalization for being a bit of a jerk. Some of the other items share one or both of these vibes. It all makes this a bit of a joke.

> We hire strictly based on merit

Not even close. When you're explicitly making certain ideologies, behaviors, and character traits mandatory, you are most definitely not hiring strictly on merit by any definition that has any meaning whatsoever.

>No longer do a small cabal of bureaucrats or politicians decide how much money circulates or who receives special privilege

Stopped reading here. There's still a cabal, it's just a different group of bad actors.

Oooof - "The Tentaclemandments of Kraken" made my skin crawl. There's something unbelievably cringy to me about "culture" initiatives at companies framed around cutesy animals/monsters. It's infantilizing. :shrug:

Otherwise reads like most culture docs I've seen at startups. I guess this is notable because "No politics at work"?

> Their values – crypto, cypherpunk, libertarian values – are the core of what continues to make this company the most attractive home for the top minds in the industry.

I don’t think they know what “libertarian” means.

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