This wasn’t an open source codebase, was it? I don’t think trustless applies when that person is the CTO and co-founder and other people in the company say they never saw or spoke to him.

Is that not at the core of this debacle, though? That we all were too trusting? I think it is very human to trust someone. Because we have to, to have time to actually live. But this community can get better at who we trust, and at spreading trust around. Rather than trusting one "bro circle" that a...