I got into bitcoin via the darkweb in 2013 but what orange pilled me was realising after 6 separate, independent shitcoin projects I worked in or volunteered for, every. last. one... cultish mentality, full of get rich quick, ponzi scammers.

The last one that took the cake was a Nexo related crypto lending platform for a loan shark company where the team lead refused to let me write a debugging framework for their testnet.

Right as I was having this issue with the contract celsius blew up.

I dunno if it's correct to say I was "orange pilled" because I always felt kinda excluded from contributing to Bitcoin but wanted to program these systems. These experiences blackpilled me on shitcoins and then I was there on Twitter, enjoyed the attitude of GFY in the bitcoin community, and I suppose that was my orange pill. Cory Klippsten in particular, I loved his take no prisoners approach.

Kinda funny now, Swan better do something about their connection to Prime Holdings or they are gonna lose their most loyal possible customer base.