> The anonymous/pseudo anonymous nature of the space is bizarre. I would have multiple voice-only meetings with people using aliases and avatars for all communi

> The anonymous/pseudo anonymous nature of the space is bizarre. I would have multiple voice-only meetings with people using aliases and avatars for all communications. To this day I only know some people as "Mango Man" or whatever. Meeting people who could just burn down an entire identity and start fresh when things go sideways is an indicator of the nature of the space. I can't blame them. It involves money and it's a new and risky and currently unregulated space. Things go sideways unexpectedly or the SEC changes their rules suddenly (see them possibly classifying a bunch of tokens as securities when they didn't before, with all the KYC and other regulations that requires) and you run the risk of having both users that went too deep into it (like exist for damn near everything, including Pokemon cards) trying to kill you and SEC trying to put you in jail. I've done a little code assistance on a web3 project (mostly just helping a friend who's doing the actual coding, when they have questions) and I'm doing my best not to have my name associated with it, just in case, even though I think the project is trying to make positive changes and will be one of the 'good' ones eventually. For the longest time I avoided any jobs involving money specifically because I didn't want to risk screwing something up and causing a lot of pain or lost money for people (reason why I avoided healthcare too). And yet now I've got professional experience working for a healthcare company and as a consultant for a major financial company, so I ended up down that path anyway.