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polynya
@polynya
Half a year on from my final and most hated blog post, have things changed? Unfortunately not, crypto remains among the most morally bankrupt industries, and far and away the worst I've personally participated in. Most people in this industry are perpetually in denial, with negligible effort to change things for a better culture. Yes, vile degeneracy has been temporarily muted relative to March 2024, but this is only because the shitcoins are down 99% since then. I see no evidence that any lesson has been learned, and the same pandemonium is very likely to repeat. Obviously, I still highly respect the 0.1% of this industry that's actually net positive for humanity, and needless to say, all of this is just my personal opinion. I still hope, one day, at least some of the remaining 99.9% of the industry will share those values.
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I don't think this is just crypto-related. Many newcomers to crypto just came through shitcoins, memecoins, failed p2e's. The average profile (in my experience as a community moderator and CS) is a guy who doesn't know shit, doesn't care about learning how to XYZ and whose English is broken beyond repair. A great prey for every 0 IQ scammer out there if said profile wasn't broke more often than not. This average user, call him Jim, will go through a lot of projects expecting huge profits or even free "airdrops" granting him lotta free money, and thus he will join and blindly believe whatever trend each project follows. After joining a sufficiently big amount of projects, Jim will proceed to cry and say "scammers, scammers!" when things don't meet his expectations which may or may not be inflated by the project itself, but that he surely didn't take the time to check. I find normal crypto be filled of useless stuff. There's a lot of demand for it! Crypto doesn't need a moral compass. Some people do...
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