This has been how I've seen it for a while as well! It's really hard to convince me that something is decentralized when, like you said, I have to verify my ide

This has been how I've seen it for a while as well! It's really hard to convince me that something is decentralized when, like you said, I have to verify my identity on a third party exchange to acquire them. I mean, obviously you could store them locally on a wallet and get them from a friend or something but the fact that these gigantic exchanges came from nowhere seems to indicate that it's not as easy to decentralize money as they'd like us to believe.