Ethereum Client Parity's Afri Schoeden Quits Social Media Amid Community Infighting

Afri Schoeden, release manager at blockchain infrastructure firm Parity Technologies, has withdrawn from social media amid a spate of infighting in the Ethereum community.

In a tweet posted on Feb. 17, Schoeden stated that "Until further notice I will no longer respond on Gitter, Skype, Discord, Slack, Wire, Twitter, and Reddit."

Parity Technologies is a United Kingdom-based blockchain infrastructure provider, known primarily for developing one of the most well-known clients for Ethereum, also known as Parity.

Shoeden's decision to temporarily exit the social media space appears to have been prompted by the antagonistic responses to a series of his tweets last week, all of which have now been deleted.

One of the most controversial, tweeted on Feb. 14, purportedly contended that "Polkadot delivers what Serenity ought to be" - Serenity being the final upgrade for the Ethereum network, when the mainnet will transition to a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm.

In regard to this latter accusation, the recent delay of the Constantinople hard fork - one of two system-wide upgrades that constitute the network's third stage of development on the way to Ethereum 2.0.

Constantinople's earlier delay in October was due to a consensus issue that was detected on the Ropsten testnet, affecting both Parity and the Ethereum client aleth.

By press time, Parity representatives have not responded to Cointelegraph's request for comment on Schoeden's decision to step back from the discussion.

Notably, core Ethereum developers - including Jeff Coleman and Hudson Jameson - have tweeted their firm support of Schoeden following his announcement.

As recently reported, the Ethereum core dev group is currently discussing a controversial new smart contract creation feature set to be released with Constantinople, dubbed Create2, which some have alleged could have negative security implications if it is not sufficiently reviewed.