the silence tax

they’ll tell you to stay quiet. that your pain is yours alone. that your thoughts don’t matter. that speaking up will only invite more trouble. they’ll say the world is too loud already, and your voice will just get lost in the noise.

here’s what they won’t tell you: silence costs more than speaking ever will. it festers. it isolates. it lets the wrong stories win. silence doesn’t protect you—it erodes you from the inside. in 2018, india’s central bank cut off our banking. overnight, our bitcoin exchange was on life support. no warning. no appeal. just a cold directive that could have ended everything we’d built.

we could disappear—or make the story impossible to ignore.

we chose the second. we didn’t just complain in private. we documented every injustice. every sleepless night. every employee we had to let go. we wrote articles, shared threads, rallied voices. pain shows up uninvited. but you choose what to build with it. we turned fear into ink. ink into leverage. leverage into a supreme court win that didn’t just save us—it redefined financial freedom for millions in india.

that victory wasn’t luck. it was the compound interest of refusing to shut up. of turning raw hurt into something sharp and undeniable. freedom doesn’t come from staying quiet. it comes from the relentless act of putting words to the wound. writing isn’t optional. it’s the difference between pain that fades into regret and pain that transforms into power.

you have pain. everyone does. maybe it’s a betrayal at work. a dream deferred. a system that crushed you without a second thought. the question is what you’ll do with it. will you bury it? or mine it for the gold hidden inside? write it down. make it matter. let it echo beyond your own echo chamber. turn your silence into someone else’s freedom. because your story isn’t just yours—it’s the key that unlocks doors for others walking the same path.

i’m still writing. still turning yesterday’s scars into tomorrow’s blueprints. because the world doesn’t need your silence. it needs your truth. raw, unfiltered, unafraid. speak it. write it. live it. the cost of staying quiet is a world that never changes.