Other members launched a smear campaign, including circulating a 17-page document detailing Gevers' past failures and mistakes. The attacks became so intense the community had to warn its members against using threatening language:
All - It's come to my attention from the powers that be that some community members are using threatening language towards the board. It should go without saying that this is unprofessional and unacceptable. Please use good judgement in your personal communications. Thank you!
— #WeAreTezos ? (@TezosCommunity) January 17, 2018
With Tezos' development stalled and the Breitmans facing legal action in the U.S., the couples' heftiest leverage is its community of investors, supporters, and developers, as the two illustrated in their year-end message:
The feud isn't just about control: the Tezos foundation's $232 million has skyrocketed in value as prices for ether and bitcoin, the main currencies paid in during the ICO, surge. Though Tezos' broker has assured investors that the funds are safe, they are effectively frozen until the Breitman-Gevers fight is resolved.
«Weird Shit»
Gevers' tweets unleashed a fresh battery of criticism. Chris McCoy, the founder of sports social network YourSports, said Gevers reminded him of a ruthless dictator at the St. Moritz crypto confab: «His speech was some weird shit,» McCoy tweeted.
I was in Switzerland, at the conference where this went down. This Gevers character came across as a sociopath dictator extraordinaire. His speech was some weird shit. I'm now unsure how this plays for Tezos, the blockchain protocol. Very unfortunate. https://t.co/hGreTszk52
— Chris McCoy (@chrisamccoy) 21. Januar 2018
The remarks come as the Gevers-led foundation faces an end-January deadline to replace Guido Schmitz-Krummenacher, a lawyer and prolific board member in Zug who threw in the towel at Tezos last month.
