I have absolutely no faith in crypto as a force for good. The decentralisation and crypto anarchism ideas that drew me to the space are dead. Crypto capitulated completely to the US government. The grift is everywhere. The extraction has reached new levels. It’s just a centralized, PVP casino.

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Crypto is a long game. Looking at it only through the lens of its most visible failures misses the larger picture.

It remains the most decentralized, permissionless financial system ever built. The challenges are there, but so is the progress.