Ethereum Foundation sued after firing employee over mandatory 'Source Seppuku' suicide pact

A former employee of The Ethereum Foundation is suing the nonprofit, alleging disability discrimination, retaliation, unfair employment practices, and related claims, reports The Denver Post. 'The Ethereum Foundation Mandate,' a 38-page vision for the next 1,000 years, was distributed to the organization's ~250 employees in Q1 this year. On page 11 of the finalized document, there was a bizarre and rather extreme oath. This illustrated page essentially formed a suicide pledge and, unsurprisingly, scores of people didn't want to sign.

At the top of this story, you can see page 11 from the evidence submitted in the case of FULTON v. ETHEREUM ASIA PACIFIC LIMITED et al. Perhaps one could say it was illustrated like an anime version of Grimm’s fairy tales. Indeed, it contains more than a touch of the macabre, like all the best such stories.

On this particular page, reproduced in court documents, anyone working on the software used by the Ethereum Federation (EF) was asked to …