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   Thad (thad@brontosin.space)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 06:34:48 JST Thad

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   • BrianKrebs

   @briankrebs If only several thousand more people had warned him.

   https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

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     BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 06:34:49 JST BrianKrebs

     ...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right?

     "I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto"

     "Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of crypto’s transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, it’s just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system that’s really just a mirror of what the economy is now."

     "The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."

     https://x.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640

     Steve's Place repeated this.