I am a crypto fan and do not “want deregulated finance”. It is not “exactly what crypto is all about”. I think most in the space would actually like to see more sensible regulation.
This is unfortunate. However, in my experience of crypto fans it seems like a large - probably very large - majority of them are fans of deregulation and consider this one of the main positive points of crypto. Would you say that's incorrect?
Even Cobie's tweet is absent any specific stance, and features a funny gif of Nancy Pelosi who is also a beneficiary of some really awesome trades.
Many people are fine just watching addresses and filings and copying their trades. Now we know one address that loads up before Coinbase announces.
For example, perhaps you are in favor of crypto because it is (i) harder for a state to seize or (ii) impossible for a single state to inflate. Those are in part possible because of the distributed decentralized nature of cryptocurrency. Being in favor of those two things does not mean you cannot also be in favor of regulating people that manipulate crypto market by wash trading, in favor of arresting thieves and hackers, in favor of banning insider trading, etc. You can have a system with trustless elements and that still relies on the laws and regulations to enforce certain aspects.
However, one should keep in mind that certainty is not necessarily better—it depends on what the rules are. Operating in a grey area is better than being banned outright, and overly strict regulation can nullify all the advantages of a new system by forcing it into the mold of the old system it's meant to replace. The ideal outcome is that they explicitly adopt a hands-off approach so that the threat of adverse regulation is removed without being replaced by known adverse regulation in the present.