Ross Takes a Break
Dogecoin’s Core Developer Ross Nicoll in an announcement yesterday declared his resignation owing to multiple reasons.
Although he clarified that since finding his replacement as a Director will be a difficult and lengthy process, he’ll be continuing in his position for the next 4-8 weeks.
Stating his reasons for the departure from the Foundation, Ross stated:
“Primarily the stress involved is overwhelming and I need to step back to focus on myself for a period. There is a further complication that my employer for my day job is moving into the blockchain space, leading to a risk of conflict of interest if I remain as a Director.”
The ‘day job’ mentioned here is his responsibilities as an SRE – SWE at Google where he has been employed for 9 months now.
Ross became a part of Dogecoin 8 years ago in 2014 where he volunteered to contribute code, handle testing as well as review code and interface with the Dogecoin community.
Before that Ross had been a part of multiple organizations such as Amazon, Dapper Labs, Oracle, as well as New York-based enterprise technology provider R3 where we worked as a developer, software engineer, and distributed systems manager.
Although Ross Nicoll did announce he will be stepping away from his current position, he will continue to remain an advisor to the Dogecoin Foundation.
The Foundation recently also onboarded Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin as an advisor who is currently guiding Dogecoin towards a Proof of Stake consensus from Proof of Work.
In regard to the cause of the Foundation’s formation and its current conditions, Ross said:
“The Foundation is operating in an extremely challenging environment, where every step of the way simple processes are significantly more complex than they should be, but it is moving forward… The alternative is returning to a situation where source contributors are exposed to legal risk with no entity to shield them, and I do not see that ending well.”
