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>Crypto fans get mad when deregulated finance is comically unfair.

I’m curious as to where you’ve seen this sentiment from crypto fans? It seems most of the people getting angry about this are people who already disliked crypto and are using this event to add more fuel to the flames.

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> I’m curious as to where you’ve seen this sentiment from crypto fans?

I mean, Ethereum itself forked over "hey that's no fair" when the DAO got compromised.

That's not a general observation about all, or even most, "crypto fans" as the earlier comment implied but rather just part of the Ethereum community. And it was still decentralized, as a majority of the users of Ethereum had to agree to the fork before it could take place. The DAO fork was a bad decision and set a poor precedent but it's unlikely to be repeated—a fork in the chain at this point would have too much impact on too many other tokens to be a viable solution to a single buggy smart contract.

Are you saying the fork was a bad thing? Or are you critiquing crypto people for not living up to their values?

For both points, I'd like to mention that there is no universal value set or profile.

Neither; I'm answering the question about "where you’ve seen this sentiment from crypto fans", and this is a solid example of it.

I doubt non crypto fans are doing investigatory research into Coinbase insider crypto purchases and complaining about it on Twitter, Reddit, and HN. Just a hunch.

Do you think cobie is mad here? Or implying he wants more regulation?

Is that a joke? That group is always looking for things they can point to and say "see I told you crypto was bad". This is typical of any industry or topic to actively look for confirmation bias, it's just human nature.

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