Remember the PLOT TWISTā¦
Expert updated their site that day with exactly the same features we were launching IOTL with in the evening. It absolutely knocked the wind out of my sailsā¦ Having been somewhat GASLIGHTED by these guys for over a year, on so many things I was showing you, youāve only got to scroll back through the timeline above to see so many discrepancies in what I have talked about vs whatās thereā¦ when you have been striving for truth for so long, and the proof you provide keeps getting hidden, or changed, mis-labelled on Expert, seeing everything we had worked for that was unique to IOTL, was now on Expert, just felt like we were copy-catās and not innovators. After a year of these shenanigans, it just got to meā¦ Iām so sorry I just faded away and disappeared, I know so many of you noticed, I hope you understand why nowā¦ I had also returned to a full-time job in May 2023 and I excelled in what I did. It was easy to bury myself in that as a distraction. But the pull of the Ledger was always still there for me. Despite not posting things here, I had still been rooting around in the transactions, amongst other things in my spare time.
Jan 2024, I sent an NDA out to people. Everyone, but one person signed it. The ādeveloperā. I reached out to try and encourage him but without pressure. A couple of months later, he messaged to say he no longer had time to invest in building for IOTL, saying he was working on something with his brother and wanted to remove the code from his server. I asked him for some time to find a replacement to host the site (now you guys know me and my technical skills right, kettles and calculators). It was never just a quick phone call or a button push for me to figure thingsā¦ so a few weeks later, imagine typing in our domain iotl.live and finding the ādeveloperā had (without telling me) re-routed everything already built, to his own website, taken our branding off, added his own branding, changed the introduction page AND ADDED MORE UPDATES!!! What a guy!!! BTW you STILL have our logo in your title bar on the top of your webpage, if youād so kindly remove it. I donāt want any more association to you but I couldnāt be more grateful that you did that! You showed me who the people are around me! You exposed yourself and others for who they truly were. You gave me the opportunity to re-think what I could do with IOTL and add more value to the community and what needed building. So genuinely, thank you!
July 2024ā¦
I went to SheFi in Brussels. This was a blockchain festival for all things DeFi for women ā hence SheFi (cool brand right?!) I was FILLED with inspiration of other womenās storiesā¦ and the theme of the event was āDo it scaredāā¦ A couple of weeks later, I did it scaredā¦ I walked out of my job. It was not where I wanted to be. Whilst I did smash everything I worked for, there were no rewards, no heart filled moments, no inspiration, satisfaction and no want or desire to be thereā¦ especially when you covered two peopleās jobs for a year and when they finally start the new person, they put them on 10% a year more! Byyyyyeeeeeeā¦. I needed to be back where I felt I belong, in the Ledger, creating content, tutorials, networking with other Stellar enthusiasts. I missed you! I put together a submission for SCFā¦ I nervously sent it offā¦ I have no coding experience, no technical ability, nothing but myself and a conceptā¦ but their motto is āWhere blockchain meets the real worldā so, I had to have a goā¦