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The financial system has evolved over 5000+ years and is like an endless series of Chesterton's Fences at this point. Here we find another: the ability for a regulator or a bank to freeze assets is once again proven to be a feature not a bug.

Managing a wallet where there is no recourse if your wallet is compromised is simply too difficult when even crypto exchanges get hacked and otherwise sophisticated people get compromised when taking cautious measures (eg [1]).

Crypto really is and always was a race to the rug pull.

[1]: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/about-3-5-million-los...

parent jmyeet 1 day ago

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