I've been reflecting on our episode with Gary Gensler's lieutenant Corey Frayer this week. There's something I wish i said to him. The thing that pissed us off about the Gensler crusade and Operation Chokepoint was the absolute hubris. You used hallowed American institutions to target an industry you didn't like for ideological reasons. In the words of a judge in a court case you lost - it was arbitrary and capricious. And in using the SEC and OCC and DOJ as ideological weapons you damaged the legitimacy of these great institutions you say you serve. Now that crypto is fighting for its survival you're claiming money in politics and corruption. Before you criticize look in the mirror - you caused this. Tens of millions of Americans want access to crypto and decentralized finance - that's why the industry exists. You never had the authority to block them from it. You expect us all to just roll over and die? No, we don't trust the crypto banks anymore than we trust you. But true crypto doesn't ask us to trust. True crypto gives power back to the the individual. That's something you never acknowledged and fought to make impossible. But we're doing it with DeFi. Protocols not people. Code not kings.(RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦄)