I suspect Alameda customers or investors who are staking probably thought, yeah, he's probably doing something shady, but at least we're benefiting from it. I think another takeaway from what happened here is that crypto has these severe boom bust cycles. And during that bubble phase, a lot of people sort of suspend skepticism and disbelief. Why would you want to buy some startup that'll probably fail just to get tangential exposure to it?

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