3 years of leading SEAL 911 taught me one thing: people do fucking NOT learn how to deal with crypto until they've lost substantial money. there are no shortcuts. fucking none. some people literally must lose everything before it clicks that they should be using a fucking hww. i'm basically yelling into the void here, but 99.9999% of people are completely incapable of handling crypto safely until they've been financially raped.

so I've been thinking about this for a while now and I'm more and more convinced that crypto was never meant for mainstream. The main reason being that crypto's purpose is _liberation_, not popularity. It's effectively for those who choose sovereignty over simplicity. If it never goes mainstream, that means it stayed dangerous. It stayed free. Thus, mainstream isn't the goal. Freedom is.

I love how Xwitter cares about their security

Dropping some thoughts as this concerns me a lot lately: - What happens when a DPRK-backed persona slips into Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, etc.? - What happens when client teams get compromised from within, turning trusted core devs into silent attack vectors? - What happens if the Kim boys start tampering with the cryptographic libraries we all rely on? (we don't know if this already happened btw...) So far, the attacks have targeted individual projects. The next phase? My guess is a full-scale takeover of the infra that holds our ecosystem together. Look, it's pretty simple: the threat model isn't just shifting—it's escalating. Every move you make without paranoia is an opening for state-sponsored actors to dig in deeper. If you're not fucking questioning everything, you're already playing their game. This industry's long-term survival depends on its foundational pillars operating in a constant state of paranoia. Like it or not.