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The fact that we have these hot wallets is creating a whole industry of scammers and malware. >> Just just the fact that they exist on your wallet. It’s not just like, oh, you better protect yourself. It’s and this is what’s turning me around to not doing it. It’s like, oh, you know, if it’s convenient and da da da, but actually by not doing it, you’re kind of a dick. you need to use hard wallets because if you’re not, you’re effectively like indirectly supporting a whole industry of cyber crime. Uh and and the fact that there are so many hot wallets with so much money is why there’s like slaves in Thailand >> and it’s also the entry point to to naivity. So, like whenever you’re signing someone on, >> you give them the thing that is the most like easy to scam as opposed to like signing them up with the thing that teaches them how to actually secure their funds and be resistant to scamming, which is the whole point of this technology. And so, like, >> and now we have account abstraction, right? Now we have smart contract wallets that are actually way safer than than uh um hot wallet hot wallets like >> you know >> I didn’t know that >> like I almost thought that the abstractions being built in it’s like they got all kinds of things cool this is all started I would argue started with Alex Bandisan’s like universal >> login or whatever it was um he started these things >> like in in earnest and then they’ve they’ve they’ve grown pretty substantially since Yeah, I mean you can with a smart contract wallet you can put all sorts of like uh like with unicorn the way like with the ethmer app and these things uh we have graduated security levels Right.