why I dislike crypto founders so much i got into crypto in 2016 and back then a large proportion of market participants cared about the core values like decentralization, immutability, censorship resistance etc. today, hardly 2% still care about it, the rest of the "builders" just want to make money there is NOTHING wrong with wanting to make money. it is a good thing. but if you want to make money, JUST SAY THAT and don't frame it like you are saving the world jesse's words here are "we are gonna have this positive impact on the world (...) and figure out how these new tools can unlock new systems for ALL OF US and so (...) we are going to be exploring a network token" shut your mouth there is precisely one reason why base is launching a token and it is to max extract one last time for coinbase shareholders. and that by itself is not a bad thing, the bad thing is how jesse frames it like they want to save the world when indeed they just want to max extract and this is true for ALL crypto companies base worked great without a token for years, you don't need a token polymarket, pumpfun, and all other dapps work perfectly fine without a token, yet, they all have one. for the sole reason that it is the easiest way to make more money for the team and vcs. and i would be ok with it if they were just honest about it instead of virtual signalling like a blue haired liberal imagine that uber, spotify, airbnb and every single app had their own currency. makes 0 sense. they have company shares and it is the mandate of the board and management to maximise shareholder value, often against the common good. but i am ok with it, bc it is transparent and honest only in our industry do we have people like sandy from scroll or cringe jesse pretending they are saving the world when indeed they are just enriching themselves can't listen to these people talk...