re: Crypto: Love it when protecting your users consists of pausing withdrawals

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Once BTC/crypto became a speculative security, what BTC was created for went out the window

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speculative bubble or not, as these bubbles pop what you are left with is the fundamentals of the underlying technology. You can either choose to use that technology as it was intended or put yourself at risk by handing your assets to irresponsible exchanges, or you can choose to leave the space entirely. I haven’t noticed the latter happening in my demographic, because while a lot of people did get swept up in the mania, a non-negligible subset of these people actually do see an appeal in the existence of the BTC network and think others will one day too.

I’ll just say there is a reason you can find Ledgers in Best Buy now, there is a demand for cold storage because in my view, as speculative bubbles pop, lessons are learned about best practices; and the market will inevitably converge to the what the fundamental value proposition of the technology is.