I have done many things wrong in my life; I have no need to…

I have done many things wrong in my life; I have no need to pretend otherwise. But one charge even my most imaginative detractors cannot make stick is that I lacked balls.
I stood up to a combined force involving Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and many of the largest players in the corrupt crypto industry. Not from the safety of a committee, not behind a chorus of anonymous cowards, and not with the soft little evasions of men who mistake popularity for principle.
I took the blows openly. I was bloodied. I was dragged through the mud by people who confuse consensus with truth and wealth with virtue.
And yet, here is the awkward fact they cannot quite digest: I am still standing.
That, I suspect, is what irritates them most.
Written by S. Tominaga