> except this wasn't a targeted attack, it was just a run of the mill shotgun approach to capture wallets.
Do we know that? The tweet you linked to basically says, we have no idea what happened so we have no idea if it was targeted or not.
But i do agree generally that i have no idea why "imagine the financial system but with no regulation or oversight" is considered a selling point.
cryptocurrency is stupid. regulation around banks is there for many very good reasons.