Repentance, you have consistently been a bastion of reason here and I commend you for that.

I'd humbly ask you allow for the possibility that start-up investors, VCs and otherwise, do sometimes act outside own best interests. I do this work -- when I could do anything -- because I like helping young companies.  Maybe it’s selfish because I used to be them.

I don't do this because I enjoy 1) breaking up squabbles among children, 2) watching disaster unfold in slow motion, 3) grinding through legal red tape to clean up the mess, 4) enduring a (botched) character assisination for my troubles.

I will get -nothing- for having entered this bloody fray, and you know well what I have risked to do so.  I will not see a second of my life back or a single satoshi. But by God the customers will.

At the end all anyone will remember is: Bitcoinica. Bad. Wasn't that Tihan guy involved?

I accept this as the cost of doing the right thing and I'm not asking any favors. But it'd be really nice if you'd consider assuming the best, for just one second, before assuming the worst.