Markets maturing doesn't automatically mean speculation dies—it's more that risk appetites reshape. When traders claim alts going to zero signals market maturation, they're overlooking something: crypto's core appeal has always been asymmetric opportunity.

Strip out the moonshot mentality and moonshots themselves, and half the community walks. Not because they're degenerate gamblers, but because radical upside drives participation.

Crypto wasn't built to be predictable. If the entire ecosystem becomes a safe, boring asset class—just another portfolio hedge—it loses the culture, the builders, the ethos that actually got us here.