@bravojohnson

The crypto “decentralization” discourse was always just rent-seeking perpetual machine disguised as ideology. It wasn’t really about intermediaries—it was about becoming the intermediaries. This explains why the pivot to “social trading” feels so natural. It was always about extraction infrastructure. The “decentralized” rhetoric was just positioning to attract the builders who would create the value they could extract. If someone’s rhetoric is “decentralization” but their behavior is “maximum convenience centralized monoculture,” they’re telling you exactly what they’re building: a new centralized extraction system that they control, wrapped in decentralization aesthetics.

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