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Who is grieving and what are they grieving about?

The idea that blockchain will change the world.

Every week, every month, every year, crypto is alleged to be dead and dying. And still the adoption, usage, and price goes up.

It gets hyped, it falters, people stop talking for a while, and the cycle repeats itself.

Sounds like a classic hype cycle to me, however without the stabilization of effective large scale adoption.

Yes, you can say the same thing about any ponzi scheme, until it finally crashes.

So blockchains aren't fundamentally decentralized, permissionless, censorship resistant networks, and you've found a secret issue that will cause an unraveling of the protocol?

If not, then maybe just step back and observe the chain grow block by block, day by day, unfettered, for the rest of your life.

Blockchain != cryptocurrencies

32,510.30 USD/BTC

2008 - 0.00 USD/BTC

Come now, you are just bargaining. Just move on and get to the final stage of acceptance and hope.

What am I bargaining about again? I trade bitcoin options + the volatility has been great for my own positions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Did you buy the top or something?

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