WhaleSmith

The absolute worst part about launchpads is measuring “how high x coin can go” based on what launchpad it was launched on. It caps ceilings massively. People don’t expect memes to flip the launchpads and so far have been right. Bring back manual deploying.

I like this. We've reached a point of limited ROI on trying to onboard crypto natives, in that most of us already use/have used everything here. It makes sense from a business perspective to look at where the puck is moving – the "long degeneracy" thesis in the age of the K-shaped economy – and onboard retail specifically outside of crypto. Better to onboard 1 million people with $10 each and give them the toolset/understanding to try and compound that, versus the doomification narrative of "don't try, the system is rigged", etc., that mainstream/tradfi would have you believe. At the end of the day, the industry needs capital/liquidity injections + fresh market participants with new mindsets/values/goals to take us into the next decade and beyond. There's not a single "correct" way to play crypto, and pump is proving that being dynamic/everything at once is the model. And yeh, people will try to FUD this for not aligning with some preconceived/high-and-mighty notion of what crypto is, when in reality, we are constantly evolving, and any new market participant is +EV for the future of this industry.