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We Did It - Public Outcry Forces MEXC To Do The Right Thing I didn't have a draft statement for this occasion, as I honestly never expected it to come. I did see the public apology, and while appreciated, it didn't specify what they were apologizing for. Implying I was a criminal (with their public AML claims in the beginning) or a scammer (with the most recent accusations after AML was publicly debunked) would have been nice. I stand on my word that I have NEVER used any automation, secret API access, or bots when I conducted my trades on MEXC. I'm just a trader, who wins or loses by his own hand. So an apology for smearing my good name would be more important to me than an apology for holding my funds in the first place. But I will accept the apology, regardless. I'm sure it wasn't easy to write. That said, our work is not yet done. Throughout this saga over the past few months I've read 100s of cases of people just like me who have been put on indefinite freezes with no access to their funds. People who did not have as large of a microphone as mine. People and organizations make mistakes. But both people and organizations have the ability to change. If MEXC is truly sorry and wants to build a better future, let's start here: 1. Never should the exchange have the financial incentive to "keep" or cause a customer to forfeit their funds. Especially when they act as judge, jury, and executioner to determine your guilt in the first place. If suspected criminal behavior is present, it should be turned over to the proper authorities. Period. MEXC needs to make this public commitment that they will never simply confiscate customer funds as has been done so many times in the past (and they admitted they were planning on doing with me). 2. Valid risk control processes exist for a reason. I don't want terrorist organizations or child trafficking rings to be using an exchange to launder money either. However we have to accept and understand that innocent people DO get flagged for a variety of reasons. MEXC needs to make a commitment towards expediting their review process. And once the financial incentive to find you guilty has been removed from the equation (see #1) they need to have reasonable time frames for either referring a case to proper authorities or unlocking customer funds. MEXC risk control team is not law enforcement. They should not act like it. In the beginning of this issue being made public I recognized that I was not a voice for only myself. There are many good people who still have accounts frozen that have not gotten the visibility my case has. That's why it never felt right to take the money back and keep it for myself. It's not fair that someone who has status or wealth or a certain amount of social media followers be treated so differently than every other person who has their hard-earned money taken from them. I'm happy to announce that I am going to distribute 100% of these funds - as I initially promised - to be split between the first 20,000 supporters (NFT holders) - and the remaining 50% to verified non-profit organizations. Because I wasn't expecting this to happen today I ask to give me a couple days to properly set up the airdrop claim mechanism, and work out a way for the community to vote on non-profits they care about. I have family obligations that will keep me limited engagement today, but I'll make forward progress on this and hope to have it live in the next couple of days. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. The battle has been won. But the war is far from over. And this isn't just a war against MEXC. It's a war to continually improve our space. To fix our own problems so that governments don't need to step in and fix them for us. To continue the evolution of Satoshi's vision as we craft, test, break, and rebuild this beautiful new world together. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋 solscan.io/tx/3P6uFgiRE6v…

This is actually insane. MEXC backed down Without having an in-depth understanding of MEXC's claims over the legitimacy of @TheWhiteWhaleV2's funds, the fact that thanks to a public campaign they finally conceded is a clear win over what I always perceived to be a very shady exchange. Imagine the number of anon, pseudo-closed cases there are behind the scenes. MEXC did twitter AI bots before it was cool. Very organized, even seemed manual. See the tweet below. @zachxbt asked today about information about MECX's alleged shadow owner, "Tony", and @coffeebreak_YT was tagged in multiple twitter posts these last few days. It never should have escalated like this. I imagine the silent threat of more exposés made them reconsider. Perhaps this will be another Tether story, and they'll be able to clean up; escalation and a potential exchange hit would be bad overall (not that this is on the table right now anyway)