Ethereum Name Service director is still in control despite uproar over his tweets

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Brantly Millegan remains a director of Ethereum Name Service following DAO vote. | Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) director Brantly Millegan remains in his position following a vote to remove him over a number of controversial tweets. A snapshot of the vote shows 1.6 million governance tokens pledged against his removal, with 1.4 million for it, a margin of 5.88 percent.

If Millegan abstained from voting, he would have been removed as director

ENS is a blockchain protocol used by over 300,000 people. It converts convoluted crypto wallet addresses into a single username of the user’s choosing. The addresses are formatted as “username.eth” and have become widely used across the Web3 community.

One of Millegan’s old tweets resurfaced last month, in which he said, “Homosexual acts are evil. Transgenderism doesn’t exist....

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