EOS developer Block One said, “Dan is starting anew to promote a new personal project.” “After co-founding Block One with Dan in 2017, the company and industry have grown to an unprecedented level,” said Brandon Bloomer, CEO of Block One. I am doing it.”
◆ Why did Larimer resign?
Dan Larimer revealed about the resignation of CTO through the EOS-based SNS voice developed by Block One. “I am proud to have created and released EOSIO software over the past four years with the help of Brandon, Block One and an excellent team of engineers,” he said. “I resigned as CTO on December 31, 2020.”
“I will do my best to create a free market, and I will continue to work to create solutions for everything, including freedom, property, and justice,” he said. “I don’t know what to do (after Block One’s resignation), There is” he said.
“We have come to believe that we cannot provide’freedom as a service’, so we will focus on creating tools that can help people gain their freedom,” Larimer said of his plans for the future.
◆ Who is Dan Larimer?
Dan Larimer is a cryptocurrency developer from Colorado, USA. In 2014, before EOS development, it developed BitShare with Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson, which adopted a mandate proof of stake. The following year, in 2015, he participated in the development of the decentralized SNS platform Steemit and its own cryptocurrency, Steem.
He is a celebrity who ranked 13th in Forbes’ “Cryptocurrency Richer Ranking” in February 2018. Forbes estimated that Larimer at the time would have assets ranging from $600 million to $700 million.
◆ Mayor disappointed by Larimer’s resignation… EOS plunge
‘Colin Talks Crypto’, which occupied the most proxies among EOS block producers, tweeted, “Dan Larimer officially resigned. I checked through the post written on Voice and Hive Post. I can’t say I’m not disappointed,” he said. “I sold all of my EOS tokens. The proxy will be shut down soon.”
3 million EOS tokens have begun to be unstaked at Project Box One of the famous Chinese bitcoin whale Li Xiaolai. Li Xiaolai is also famous as an enthusiastic investor in EOS.
EOS didn’t have much performance last year. According to Decrypt, a media specialized in cryptocurrency, EOS recorded more than $5 on February 13 last year and has not exceeded the $2 mark since March 16. As the cryptocurrency market overall rallyed, EOS also showed a slight increase, but remained at the $3 range.