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Hopefully we will see this as a powerful turning point, heralding an end to cryptocurrency, with all its false promises of financial utopia.

Turns out it was nothing more than a series of scams, and the ensuing court cases will prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt. This entire edifice will come crumbling down, and take this entire sordid industry with it. One can hope.



> false promises

I hear your anger, but consider that this is the one financial system where self-custody is an an actual workable option. You can't store 100M USD under a mattress. You can't deploy large amounts of cash without permission from governments. In the US, banks have to report transactions over $600 to the IRS.

That said, use Monero. It's the only one of these things that protects privacy.


You're misinformed.

Depositors were stolen from because they did not self-custody.

You can't take someone else' funds on a blockchain, except by physical threat or profound custodial negligence.




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