Like most people, I was quite surprised by your announcement.

But it is starting to make sense to me given the diverging direction between Block.One, the Voice team and the values you stood for.

It baffled everyone when it was first announced that Voice would have KYC, placing the most severe of restrictions on a platform that is meant to enable free expression.

Not to mention the fact that Voice is entirely a closed sourced project running on a private chain, able to censor content and delete accounts as the executives saw fit.

It seemed like everything you were fighting against, not for.

I'm happy that we did not give up building Discussions.app, a multi-chain, open-source social networking platform on the EOSIO protocol. It did feel a bit crazy at the time, but we were proven correct.

Voice is not the free speech platform people thought you would bring into the world.

Nor was it the catalyst that would bring EOS into the forefront of the blockchain industry.

I'm pleasantly surprised to have found you back here on Hive, it rebuffs, at least a little, the idea that you are someone who abandons projects and their community.