re:pressure I read all of the chats and there's definitely a lot of hemming and hawing on gio's part over the course of 2 years especially since fraf was also in retrospect being developed in conjunction in that time. Have you ever worked on a group project with someone that you HAD to work with? If someone is actively stonewalling you what are you supposed to do at that point? Where was gio's lawyers responses? From the chats gio posted it looks like HSBC did change the NDA at their asking.

There's also A LOT of assumptions about what is going on with bambosh in the blog post as well and until we hear from them I wouldn't take it at face value. Gio readily posted all of the logs from him and miles. Where are all the logs from bambosh supporting all of the suppositions gio made on his behalf?

re: NDA Gio is someone who readily posts every possible chat log that they get their hands on, would you trust your interactions with someone like that to not misconstrue things the moment he could? I can see their perspective that to approach and work with someone like this, you need CLEAR rules and boundaries which I think ends up materializing as NDAs when you're working in an official capacity.