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Social Trading Critique Goes Mainstream in Crypto CT

Multiple voices across crypto CT are questioning whether social/copy trading has devolved into a spectator sport that actively harms traders' PnL, comparing it unfavorably to NFT-era dynamics.

What we know

An account on X compared social trading to NFT-style memecoin trading — more about status and spectacle than genuine alpha. Another account on X argued that 'social trading has turned too many traders into wallet watchers' with the narrative always shifting to blame someone else whether they sell highs or lows. Another account on X offered a positive counterexample in another account on X, who publicly shows his hedged points-farming process including PnL — earning praise for transparency over performance theater.

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