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😝 there’s me who is just like straight up afraid and then there are others who have Stockholm syndrome and love their captors https://x.com/patagucci_girl/status/1878987101414568389
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would love to be a fly on the wall for their internal discussions about this, seems like an existential PR problem
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doesn’t feel like so much of a problem for cb as it is one of user education
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education can’t help users being arbitrarily locked out of accounts without much due process beyond whining on twitter if they have enough followers
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agreed but the more users who understand how to custody their own assets the less leverage exchanges have to abuse
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yeah I get that angle too, makes sense but then you end up going down the rabbit hole of guns and physical security which is maybe (?) worse for the average person, unsure
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don’t think the worst instincts of one’s monkey mind is a reason to shy away from the work of helping sugar bears improve their agency
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yeah maybe for someone with $5k or $10k in crypto it’s a good exercise and mind expanding for sure but $100k+ becomes a literal nightmare to self-custody
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précisément. also what @iancr and Ledger are solving for
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unfortunately ledgers do nothing to help with the physical safety of your private keys, at present
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strong disagree. every day they’re educating
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about what? having your keys on a ledger doesn’t help you if there’s a gun to your temple, that’s the risk with self-custody smart contract risk and not letting keys touch the internet is table stakes, the rest is the hard part
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assolutamente. help is getting a cat to understand a couple of things: 1) those table stakes 0) the table exists
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