I'm sure his role is perfectly defensible and his experience a valuable asset for PIA in this space, but I think the issue is the optics of such a hire and what it says about other decisions that have happened or have yet to happen regarding the sale/direction of PIA. It's just especially odd considering what seems to me like obvious overlap between "People interested in having VPN service", "People interested in Bitcoin", and "People who are distrustful of Mark Karpeles".
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I can understand how you would feel that way if Mark was hired as the CTO of PIA, but as we stated before, he never had any operational role or access to anything at PIA.
Yep, I agree. That's why I said it was perfectly defensible. Getting burned by Mark in the past causes me a bad _feeling_, though, and the world of feeling and the world of logic often don't intersect, even within the same person. Basically I acknowledge that my feelings aren't logical, but that doesn't make them not exist.
How can we verify that he doesn't contribute to the codebase? Are there some git logs or something we can look through?