untie the knot

“We didn’t bring it to the full potential, which is my job also and my responsibility. So it’s always kind of a sad moment but in this particular situation it was the best solution to untie the knot.”

“If you try to untie the knot, it crumbles, so the only way to remove it and access the document is to destroy the tape. That’s painful, even though the tape itself preserves no information.”

This “crucible moment,” as Facebook and Asana co-founder and EA leader Dustin Moskovitz called it, could actually be an opportunity for EA to untie the knot binding it to the crypto industry and address the issues that have been roiling under the surface of the movement for years.

The number of marriages has plummeted every year since 2014, and officials have also grown increasingly concerned that more wedded couples were acting hastily to untie the knot.

"It goes a long way. It does not deny the problem, but it sure does untie the knot in the contradiction."