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ON KARIM LEAVING THE SHOW The vastly most common feedback I’ve gotten in the past 6 months about the most popular technical show on PulseChain was to ax Karim due to his lack of voice control. I was wrong to go against the crowd and keep him on the show so long. The show and audience suffered while Karim verbally jerked himself off via never ending monologues—often forcing an endless repeat of what he had just said—rather than give Chrispy, Fast Abdoul, or myself an equal chance to speak. I failed as a moderator. RH did a much better job of telling Karim to STFU than I ever could—when we were all on 𝕏 spaces together in the golden days. Karim is VERY good at sales but displays EXTREME selfishness both on and off screen. This was—in many situations—more than his failure to read the room. Karim knows he is selfish and does it anyway. I won’t get into what happened to him in Ukraine. The problem with influencers who are so DESPERATE to be liked—is the same reason DAOs don’t work. The crowd is wrong often enough to cause catastrophe. Part of being a leader being ABLE to do what is unpopular. But Karim is so busy manipulating the people around him to pay his way through life that he will not only fail to lead—but interfere with true leadership. You saw this with his poor financial and interpersonal planning for an emergency. He PLANNED for the community to bail him out—when he was facing a long prison sentence in Turks and Caicos—because of his extreme greed. I made sure he got out. I guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt he would not do the same for me. You saw another example of Karim’s poor judgement about Hedron; AND Hex parity. He’d rather be intellectually dishonest if it benefits him financially. The worst part is Karim had the audacity to say no one is struggling to deal with the massive STAKER APP failure he perpetuated, which affected TENS OF THOUSANDS of people. The 10+ people who approached me at the last meetup (a month ago)—begging me to take him off the show—know this decision was a long time coming and isn’t simply a reflection of current events or price. We tried to start the show early Tuesday night to have a chance to speak, but again—Karim couldn’t help but interrupt. I pray for Karim that he will someday know the joys of giving rather than just taking his whole life. PulseChain deserves great leaders. And there’s a lot of great people to look up to and admire. Did you notice how the show became incredibly useful as soon as Karim dropped off? Expect much more of the same going forward. Thank you for your patience—during my failures to correct this issue earlier. Lesson learned: Just because someone promotes your bags doesn’t mean they practice your values—and every once in a while you gotta choose. Choose wisely. Or you will quickly become the product of your people, places and things. It’s not *just* OK to cut extremely selfish people out of your life. It’s super healthy.