Vote on Treasury Withdrawal - Summit 2026

I am voting YES on the governance action with hash 7b42570b685aa6085c8345f894a6b04df06cb6fb17f9f252cfe891ceae705ddc#0.

The metadata for my vote is located here, and this blog serves as a more human-readable form of that justification.

Justification

First, I do not see any conflict of interest. I will receive no payments, tickets, sponsored travel, or anything else for this event. I’m not even sure I’ll be able to make it.

This was a very hard vote for me.

On the one hand, my consistent message with other proposals has been that we need presence, this year of all years.

On the other, the cost is extremely steep relative to what that cost could achieve in the hands of other, smaller organizations.

In the end, what convinced me was the CF’s willingness to revise their proposal based on feedback, and the fact that the costs of these events is trending down over time as the operational overhead gets streamlined. Interrupting that cadence is likely to increase costs in future years.

(Apologies for the rushed justification, this is right before the deadline)