Many people try crypto once and never return, not because they explored its depth, but because their first interaction felt confusing, transactional, and stacked in favor of insiders. First impressions calcify fast, especially when expectations don’t match outcomes.

"I’ve had friends lose money in Doge and Shiba. People who don’t spend time on X, don’t read threads, don’t want to become full-time traders. They just saw crypto everywhere and took a shot because it felt like the obvious thing to try once or even twice. What’s important is that Doge and Shiba weren’t really about crypto as a technology. They weren’t about blockchains, decentralization, or any of the stuff we like to talk about. They were tokens with a story and a crowd, but we let them become the front door. We let the loudest thing borrow the legitimacy of “crypto” as a word. So when someone loses money on Doge, they don’t walk away thinking “I got caught in a meme.” They walk away thinking “crypto is a scam.”"

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