Back to collectionAn Industry Scar, One Year On
Background: February’s gloom made it easy for the community to read every old industry story as a prediction about the present. Today: On the first anniversary of the Bybit theft, the narrator wrote in the chronicle draft, “This industry gains another scar every year,” then paused. Impact and next steps: The page retained its unease without turning the old case into a cause of anything that happened to XAI that day.
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Background: February’s gloom made it easy for the community to read every old industry story as a prediction about the present. With the anniversary of the Bybit theft approaching, the narrator had to record the scar without inventing a new crisis for today.
Today: On the first anniversary of the Bybit theft, the narrator wrote in the chronicle draft, “This industry gains another scar every year,” then paused. She considered adding market chatter but decided to record the memory stirred by the anniversary and leave judgments about the project to what could be seen that day.
Impact and next steps: The page retained its unease without turning the old case into a cause of anything that happened to XAI that day. In later entries, the narrator intended to keep industry memory, community mood, and the project’s own developments distinct. How to convey that fatigue without letting every anniversary swallow the present story remained a writing problem.