I think once crypto gained traction beyond early adopters into more mainstream people it became an "app" and that "app" was the exchange and non tech, non crypt

I think once crypto gained traction beyond early adopters into more mainstream people it became an "app" and that "app" was the exchange and non tech, non crypto people don't put more effort into it then that. What is alarming and becoming more revealing is how much of this crypto was being back-doored from one crypto "product" (exchange, fund, coin, ICO, etc.) into another. In programmer terminology: it looks like there are (were) a lot of pointers to the same memory address.