Shit I learned today

I've been reminding myself for the past 2 months not to put any trust in influencers. But I did believe in the words from those decently funded projects, considering there should have been some credibility and potential fud if they did something sketchy.

Just a bad man trying to make it like everybody else.
WAGMI 😤
Early GEMs 🧐
Professional APE 😭

Thought about what I should have done in this scenario tho🧐guess I could have binded the address to Galxe even though it's clearly stated in the doc that it's not necessary, but that would circle back to the contradiction of why I would believe this project to begin with.

Still, from this perspective it's still just myself to be blamed because addy binding ain't nothing...and considering their decision on checking SOL txns I should have known...

...cuz I was wondering "why tf would they Check txns when it's a depin project? EVM users would ofc use their fresh empty SOL address and that's completely normal". SHOULD HAVE KNOWN NORMAL LOGIC IS NOT PRIORITY. If it's a potential strategy to filter out Sybils, you should have seen it and done that to secure the bag.

Well if that's the case then before snapshot even if I saw nothing about SOL tons I should have done it. But still never would I ever imagine a project this big would label KYCed participants as Sybils...but I guess, again, that's the farmer's perspective.

Projects are now willing to go full-on scammer mode to secure their bags and I guess instead of hustling all day clicking, it's just better to slow down a bit and ask myself what would I do if I were a founder of a multimillion startup that can suck my users dry. I can cash out any time I want so idgaf about fud.

But the IONET fiasco was such a shit show🤡wouldn't imagine if a web2 startup with hundreds and millions of $ worth of FDV would just straight up change their policy when it suits them without ANY consequences.