Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
Crypto cost me my life's savings from theft and scams.
It cost me the last of my optimism when I realised the vast majority of people who claimed to support me as a creator were speculators who turned on me, threatened me and harassed me when they realised my work wasn't designed to be an "asset"
I believe in decentralisation. But right now - that's not what crypto is building. It's almost entirely a wealth generation scheme.