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everyone i’ve seen on FC sounds positive or wants to remain neutral about $TRUMP. i’ve only seen @cyberyuyu speak out about how gross it is on X/Twitter. i know i’m not the only one here totally disgusted and turned off by the crypto world rn lol

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you're certainly not the only one. I bought and sold a trivial amount to understand what was going on since I'm not much of a trader. I just can't bring myself to put more into it than that. Not because I don't think I can make money, but because it feels wrong. I do hope that dwr et al are correct that this will signal more regulatory clarity over time b/c I think poor regulation makes things worse for good players and neutral/good for bad players

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the question i’m asking myself right now is how comfortable am i with crypto’s increasing associations to fascist alliances. if i had to choose between regulation of crypto or fascism i’d choose regulation any day loool. we’re not at that point yet so i’ll be observing, but i’m feeling bad about this

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what do you mean as "crypto" in this case? Just made it up right now, but thinking there's 1) the builder-leaders (Vitalik etc), 2) the rest of the builders, 3) the technology itself, and 4) users who are not builders (including marketing). With this categorization, I feel like 1) leadership alliance with Trump etc depends on the person, 2) builders are likewise varied, and 3) the tech is permissionless and indifferent. The final category tend to "follow the money" wherever it goes (and is a lot of the noise) or to react against those following the money. This is most of what I see on Twitter. FC, on the other hand, feels much more builder-heavy, which is probably why you see mostly neutral or positive takes. It's not so much that there are explicit alliances as the hope that crypto being important to the new administration will pave the way for new regulation, which makes it easier to build more than just a casino.

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(bear with me as I could be wrong about all of this and am making it up as I type) I think one of the biggest frustrations as a philosophically-oriented consumer of crypto is that regulation seems to have relegated it mostly to crypto only being useful for crypto stuff. I remember being really disappointed that I can't use USDC, like, anywhere. I would _love_ for crypto to be able to break out of just being able to build for crypto use cases and more into the "real world".

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so in this case i mean the people, not the tech. the frustration i feel is that i truly believe in the potential of the tech, but the public-facing (and loudest) voices in crypto, which i think would include categories 1 and 2 as you listed them, being in support or indifferent to what's happening is problematic. if you are indifferent, you are indirectly complicit.

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