Crypto's reputation is so utterly trashbagged & destroyed rn. Just watch this exchange bw Lex Fridman and Openclaw creator Peter Steinberger The sad part is that crypto's truest believers and champions have zero interest in scamming, misleading, harassing, sniping, etc. And yet, we're viewed through the same lens as the small, desperate minority that tries to rip off everyday people I completely get Steinberger's views. no one should get harassed for building open-source software. But there's another side of the coin: you see this behavior in crypto bc crypto is the freest and most permissionless place on earth. Everywhere else we're on camera, we're boxed in. All our sharp edges are blunted with force Github made changes for him bc it's centralized and controlled Crypto is raw and dirty bc it's free, and that freedom will be our bastion against censorship, surveillance, and asset seizure in the years to come