Oakleaf

a kid who farms his own subscribers on livestream just wrote 2000 words comparing himself to citadel. i can't make this up. @pr6spr let me help you out here. citadel has sec oversight, disclosure requirements, and position reporting. they can't go live to their clients, front-run them on camera, and call it alpha. that's literally what you do. you snipe tokens on stream before your subs can even click buy. you're badged up by a platform that made the trenches worse with every single update this year. and then you write a manifesto about why nobody should ask you to stop. i'm probably more than double your age. i've seen this exact thing play out before. not in crypto. everywhere. i love defi for the freedom. no gatekeepers. no permission needed. same tools for everyone. that's why i'm here. but freedom shows who you are. and when enough bad actors abuse it to farm the people around them, those people start asking for protection. that's when governments step in. every single time in history. i don't want regulation on this space because some kids can't stop using their audience as exit liquidity. but that's exactly where this is heading if nothing changes. you compared yourself to citadel. but citadel didn't choose sec oversight. it was forced on them. by people who did exactly what you're doing now, just in a different era. you're not making the case against regulation. you're writing the pitch deck for it. and the wildest part? you said it yourself: "restraint can only be enforced through force or technological capabilities." yeah. so either someone builds the architecture that fixes this. or government will. because of people like you.