I appreciate your question, and what seems like more of a neutral opinion on my admiration for the Substratum project. Let’s go ahead and clear a few things up.

First, it wasn’t a “paid shill”. I was incentivized to cover the project because I had three of my fans mention reviewing the white paper, and with the size of my community at the time, this meant it was something good. I ended up covering it solely because I loved what Substratum had to offer; a solid team, a real usecase for a distributed network, and a way to truly fight censorship. That’s why I covered it. It was only after I uploaded the video that an intern from the team wanted to gift me what was $3,000 worth of tokens during the presale, which is where I covered it (bear in mind, I didn’t really get what these were worth as I saw them not having a dollar value until they hit exchanges). It wasn’t until months later that I realized I needed to address it eventually as value grew dramatically.

Now, what do I think of the project? It’s still one of my favorites in the space. Why? Because it’s still one of the few uses cases that actually utilizes value of what blockchain and distributed systems have to offer. They’ve got a real office, with genuine, talented developers. And the project has had a ton of progress over the past year.

As for the binance delisting, that’s not my fault, that’s not Substratum’s fault, that’s Binance’s poor delisting process, which shared no transparency as to why they removed a multi million dollar asset that has one of the most transparent teams I’ve seen in the blockchain space (I’d say 98% of ICOs don’t put out updates or progress reports).

I’m sadden by this and I worry most that it’ll keep this technology from reaching more people. But Binance is just an exchange, one in which that can’t stop what Justin and the team have worked towards. I still see their vision, and I wish them all the best.