It's easy to judge when you're in a position where you've never been attacked. Your bank data wasn't used to kill, kidnap your loved ones, to destroy everything you built for years. I've been through it all. I recognise the value of each developer and their contribution, but so understand their vulnerability. So I don't write to please you with my posts or to collect likes.

To be a human rights defender means to warn directly/clearly of impending emergencies or reprisals, abuses. And my strategy is to always work proactively, not just when it's too late.

I'm sharing my 15 years of advocacy experience and observations about what's happening now if #freedomtech is labeled with a negative language in the democracies. Im warning and doing everything I could to stop the bad consequences, which will affect not only me, but millions of other activists, people who are creating payment technologies and crowdfunding mechanisms for us using #bitcoin. We don’t have other instruments/comfort like you guys. It is our only life saving instruments.

You may or may not listen to it. But when my messages build a coalition of the few who are willing to act - that will be enough to protect the community. Change is always made by less than 3% of the community. While others are just idly watching.

And yes, that's my defence. I know not only how to survive with bitcoin, but also how to protect others while I, my family, my team, my donors, recipients of our funding were under attack by the three regimes. For me, this is not theoretical. It is a significant part of my life and the lives of my loved ones.