I have to admit that the idea of the blockchain makes me a little hesitant about writing details of certain things. On the other hand, in the early nineties I sent a letter to the editor of my city's newspaper identifying myself as a childhood sex abuse survivor to protest a proposed Oregon referendum that would have treated gay people as if they were equivalent to pedophiles. Writing that letter was empowering for me, and I was delighted when the referendum failed.

(To add another chapter to that story, when I lived in Nicaragua, I met a Nicaraguan-American who had lived in Oregon a long time and whose wife tried to help pass that bill with his money. He became a friend and translated for us the night my husband was injured in a robbery. It's an odd world.)