To the DevCoin Community,We write to introduce a project under development and to do so in the venue where the introduction is most owed. DevCoin is one of the founding institutions of contribution-paid cryptocurrency. The model You built in 2011 — receiver list, shares allocated by contribution, Software Freedom Conservancy as the institutional anchor, writers paid per thousand words on DevTome — established the template that the entire subsequent ethical-cryptocurrency tradition has drawn from, whether the projects that drew from it acknowledged the debt or not.
We are building a new Graphene-family chain. Before describing what We are doing, We want to describe what We are not.
We are not a fork of DevCoin. We have not snapshotted Your chain. We have not copied Your receiver list, Your branding, or Your administrative structure. The new chain launches from a fresh genesis. The technical lineage is the BLURT / HIVE / STEEM Graphene family — delegated proof-of-stake with witness-elected block production and on-chain content storage, not the SHA-256 merge-mined architecture DevCoin uses. Two different technical traditions descended from the same original ethical impulse. We are continuing in the Graphene branch.
This chain is not controlled by another community. Not BLURT, not HIVE, not STEEM, not any of the established Graphene chains it shares technical heritage with. The witnesses are being recruited fresh. None come from any of the predecessor Graphene chains. The block production, the governance, the constitutional layer, the deliberative venue — all of it is being built from a clean institutional foundation. Other Graphene chains may interoperate via Hive-Engine and TribalDEX as venues, but none of them control governance, allocation, or direction.
The history We bring with Us, We believe, is owed to You as context.
The founder of this project, writing under FinShaggy in the 2011-2014 era, was a DevTome contributor. The DevTome biography page at devtome.com/finshaggy still records the work. The Bitcointalk participation in topics 34586 and 210446 is part of the public record, including the September 2013 share-allocation exchange. The Round 28 archive at finshaggy.blogspot.com is part of the public record. The HannibalImhotep byline on the ancient history article at devtome.com/ancient_history_by_finshaggy_aka_hannibalimhotep is part of the public record.
Honesty requires Us to also name what is part of that record: the founder was banned from the broader Bitcointalk environment during that period. We do not raise this to relitigate. We raise it because it is documented and a community owed transparency deserves it stated rather than concealed. We have a different reading of what happened than the reading that prevailed at the time, and We will continue to disagree with that reading, but the disagreement is on the record and We do not pretend it is not there. We have continued operating openly under successive identifiable handles since — MarsResident on Steemit from July 2016, punicwax on STEEM/HIVE/BLURT from September 2020, Tokenista in current crypto forum participation, VanKushFam as the institutional handle of the Van Kush Family Research Institute, and Rev. Ryan Sasha-Shai Van Kush as ordained name. Continuous openly-bridged identity across roughly fifteen years. No hidden alts. No pseudonymous re-emergences after the Bitcointalk situation. Each transition documented in public posts.
The new chain inherits the contribution-paid principle that DevCoin established. Earn through writing, witnessing, curation, and other publicly-documented contribution. No premine, no presale, no insider allocation. Token issuance follows from work that other participants can see and verify. The receiver-list concept is not directly replicated because Graphene’s economic model differs structurally from SHA-256 merge-mining, but the underlying ethical commitment —
value flows to documented contribution, allocated transparently, with all recipients identified — is preserved.
We also inherit certain structural commitments that are written into the new chain’s constitutional layer specifically because of failure modes We have observed across other contribution-paid projects. Three of those commitments are worth naming.
First, founder presence. The founder is openly identified, operating under a continuously-bridged handle history, with all prior work attributable. No anonymous founding teams, no pseudonymous post-launch re-emergences, no hidden alts running secondary accounts. This is offered as a commitment from the founder to participants, structurally enforced by the constitution.
Second, outside revenue. The chain’s value is anchored in real economic activity rather than internal speculation. Writing, research, content, services produced for off-chain consumption that are then paid in chain tokens. The Van Kush Family Research Institute produces academic publication, advisory work, and consulting that flow into the chain’s economic base. Other participants are encouraged to anchor in their own outside-revenue work. The chain is structured to be a
medium for paying contributors, not a closed speculative loop.
Third — and this We name with specific reference to the documented DevCoin history — protection for contribution-driven concentration. If a participant joins the chain and through legitimate work earns a share that exceeds the existing average, that earned share is structurally protected. The witness layer cannot remove a participant on grounds of “centralization” when the participant’s contributions are visible, rule-following, and earned through stated mechanisms. If someone arrives, recruits new participants, writes substantially, witnesses reliably, or otherwise scales the chain past its existing equilibrium, that scaling is the system functioning, not the system failing. The constitutional layer prohibits governance attacks on legitimate scaling. We name this commitment specifically because it is the negative space of an experience the founder lived through, and We believe a community owed transparency deserves that named directly.
We do not propose competition with DevCoin. The two chains operate in different technical traditions, on different timeframes, with different governance structures. DevCoin remains the merge-mined SHA-256 ethical cryptocurrency anchored to the Software Freedom Conservancy. The new chain operates in the Graphene tradition with a different governance architecture and a different anchoring institution. We expect that participants in either community may choose to participate in both. We expect that the lessons each community learns may be useful to the other. We will read DevCoin’s continuing work with attention.
We write this letter because We believe institutional honesty requires it. Introducing a new contribution-paid chain without acknowledging the founding institutional precedent of contribution-paid chains would be a posture of pretending the tradition started with Us. It did not. It started with DevCoin in 2011 and the work the original administrators did to define what an ethical cryptocurrency could look like. Whatever else the new chain accomplishes, it begins by acknowledging that lineage and that debt.
Respectfully,
The Founders of the Project Under Development
I want to be Clear that we do Intend to have a HIVE-Engine TribalDEX Token and Others, but what we are doing is Distinct from HIVE or BLURT, in that we are Starting like STEEM did, with No Market.
From: El Sasha <
mahatmajapa@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: A Shot Across the Bow Re: Let’s Talk About Spending
To: <
BoardCommunications@wellsfargo.com>, <
investorrelations@wellsfargo.com>
We’re going to be like Melting Gold and Shit, I don’t think You all get it, I’m the Reason there are Drone Deliveries, and Free Internet in Africa.
