The $9.3B elephant in the room

Everyone talks about crypto adoption. Nobody talks about the $9.3B elephant in the room

The 2024 numbers:

• $9.3B lost to crypto scams
• 43.8% from private key mismanagement
• That's $4 billion gone to human error

Greatest hits of human error:

• 8,000 BTC in a landfill
• 7,002 BTC behind 2 remaining password attempts
• $190M locked because one guy died

This isn't their fault. It's what happens when you build for robots, not humans.

"Not your keys, not your coins" might be the most expensive meme in history.

Turns out most people lose their coins BECAUSE they have their keys.

Traditional finance solved this decades ago. It's called "customer service" and "account recovery." Revolutionary, I know.

We keep building harder locks for doors that people don't necessarily know how to open.

That's not security.

The future of finance won't be won by whoever builds the most complex system.

It'll be won by whoever remembers that humans use it.

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