In my naivete, I found it really interesting … this was around when I first found about BTC so I had been learning (on the sparse info that there was … mostly from discussions in forums) so unconsciously red flags started popping up … and I started to ask myself questions …

How much data points are they getting from my interactions?

What are they doing with this info?

If this is a third party … what are the main guys capturing & doing with that data?

In what ways have I been gamed?

yada yada yada …

The only way to win is not to play …