Back to collectionSorry, venture capital: a public sale meets an open question
Background: The Sentry node sale was near, but the Turkish community still did not know whether it could participate. Today: In the afternoon, the narrator first told the Turkish community that its concerns had been heard and that the team was checking with legal counsel whether Turkey could be included. Impact and next steps: To the narrator, rejecting a private sale meant passing up readily available money and giving people willing to buy publicly, and perhaps run nodes later, the opportunity to obtain keys.
A creative chronicle combining project history with imagined scenes. Story events are not verification of network activity.
Background: The Sentry node sale was near, but the Turkish community still did not know whether it could participate. Meanwhile, people kept probing for a way to buy a block of nodes privately. The narrator was waiting on a legal answer for the community as the principle of a public sale faced pressure.
Today: In the afternoon, the narrator first told the Turkish community that its concerns had been heard and that the team was checking with legal counsel whether Turkey could be included. Half an hour later, the official account answered the would-be private buyers: there would be no private sale. A fully fair sale would begin on December 6, giving the community and its most loyal supporters a chance to buy at the cheapest tier, USD 300 per key. Without the community, the project would be nothing. The closing line read, “Sorry, venture capital.” An Ice Spike skill preview also appeared as usual that day: it could stop an opponent from acting for an entire turn. Almost no one had attention left for it.
Impact and next steps: To the narrator, rejecting a private sale meant passing up readily available money and giving people willing to buy publicly, and perhaps run nodes later, the opportunity to obtain keys. The sale itself would test that choice. Turkey's eligibility still awaited legal confirmation, and a fair sale could not promise every supporter a key at the lowest price. The day's forceful statement left those practical questions open.