Odaily News Ethereum developer Péter Szilágyi and Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak have a dispute. Szilágyi said that as a key member of the development team of Geth (Go Ethereum, the main client software of Ethereum), the foundation has proposed several times in the past to bid $5 million to make the Geth team independent from the foundation, but Szilágyi and his team members rejected the proposal and chose to stay in the foundation. Earlier, the Ethereum Foundation provided $5 million in unconditional financial support to Parity (another Ethereum client development company) to ensure that the Ethereum network has multiple clients and reduce its dependence on Geth, which shows that the foundation has long intended to disperse the responsibility of client development.
Tomasz Stańczak, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, issued a statement to clarify, “There is no plan to remove Geth. It is a great client software and a talented team that contributes to the security of the protocol. We will maintain and support Geth.”