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Worse, many of them probably never even understood it in the first place.

Holding 200k (More likely the money skimmed from followers) on a CEX is proof enough for me that many of these big accounts out there do not take sovereignty and self custody seriously.

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Holding 200k (More likely the money skimmed from followers) on a CEX is proof enough for me that many of these big accounts out there do not take sovereignty and self custody seriously.

Worse, many of them probably never even understood it in the first place.

But somehow hundreds of people will still rush in to defend them, buy their memecoin, fund their latest nonsense, or act like these accounts are some kind of sacred authority in crypto.

People preach decentralization all day, then worship the exact people who treat the whole thing like a personal ATM.

But God forbid the token of an actual hard working builder is not sitting at millions in market cap.

Then the crypto bros suddenly become world class critics, talking down on it without understanding a single thing, not even realizing that they are the ones getting everything wrong.

They throw money at KOL coins who are not here for crypto but for self enrichement, recycled scams and follower extraction, but when someone is actually building something real and with products, they act like market cap is the only proof of value.

This space rewards noise, not work.

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