Like many people coming into the crypto market in 2020-2021, I came in with incredibly high expectations of the technology, people, and upside. My thinking process was that it would likely not be easy to bring this technology to a very wide audience and that there were surely some years of hard work ahead, but that all together, the industry was on a trajectory that roughly approximates a linear growth curve. I wasn’t smart enough to understand that virtually nothing worth dedicating your lif...