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Monday, May 12, 2025

DAO votes are dead on arrival. The only thing decentralized is the apathy.

Real power isn’t wielded by token holders — it’s automated, outsourced, and sold off to the highest bidder. Delegation? That’s just lazy consent. You’re not voting — you’re signing a blank check. And behind that check is a cartel with a command line, farming your “governance” for yield.

This isn’t participation. It’s automation. Bots vote before you’ve even read the proposal. Scripts manage dozens of wallets in sync. Entire vote blocks move like synchronized swimmers — clean, coordinated, and completely inorganic. You thought it was consensus. It’s choreography.

The community never had a say. Proposals pass before the comment thread fills. Wallets that haven't been active in months show up just in time to vote yes. And if anyone dares to vote no? They get buried by a wave of rented voting power and sock puppets in whale skins.

Proxy voters aren’t helping you govern. They’re running scripts that stack votes in the dark, making deals behind multisig curtains while the rest of the DAO roleplays democracy. The snapshots are public — the decisions are not.

What you see: quorum, engagement, community momentum.

What actually happened: three people in a Telegram group pulled the strings, fired off a few bots, and closed the vote before anyone blinked.

Governance as a Service isn’t a tool — it’s a rug machine.

And if you think it’s your DAO, check again.

You probably delegated it to someone who already sold it.

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He ran 4% of the internet, dropped a diss track on Hollywood, and got raided like a Bond villain. Kim Dotcom didn’t just host your torrents — he built an empire, dared the suits to come for it, and made the whole world watch. MegaUpload died in a flashbang, but the fight over who controls the internet is still live.

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We are all rekt.