If you missed yesterday’s fireworks you should catch up by reading my “Open letter to Gavin and EthCore” and the subsequent discourse that occurred on reddit. Both are important context for this letter.

I begin with an apology. I normally give myself a 24 hour cool down period before proceeding with a post such as yesterday’s. I know myself well enough to know that I don’t make the best decisions when emotions are high. I failed to do that yesterday and the result was a letter containing more rhetoric and emotional arguments than I’m proud of.

I believe there still would have been conflict, but I expect it may have been less contentious were I to have taken the time to distill things down to a more factual accounting of events with minimal subjectivity and conjecture.

Going back and reading it, I also dislike my tone of moral superiority. I don’t have the market cornered on right and wrong. Everyone gets to make their own judgement call as to where they draw those lines.

Public disagreements can damage communities and failed to do everything in my power to minimize the damage that yesterday’s post caused. For these things I am sorry.