Would you mind sharing with me what do you do for living? Are your in any way related to blockchain tech? Just curious.

I basically work as an intern in firm that trades on traditional market, but has recently involved crypto as well... Nothing special, but I am seeking to join some crypto firm and work as analyst or something like it.

Lack of middleman isn't always the best solution.

It's kinda obvious since 98% of crypto out there is traded on centralized exchanges and only around 2% on DEX. Pretty legit example On the other hand, when someone decides to make a user friendly non centralized platforms (regardless if we're talking about an exchange) things will turn around...

I've a question here. Isn't transparency an enemy of privacy? Just wondering how do you see that? Some people love transparency and others are huge funs of privacy.

Transparency doesn't necessarily need to interve with privacy. You can have a fully transparent system (for instance financial flow over the network) and yet the address could remain private...
Zcash is i believe best example for it. One has an ability to publish transactions as private or transparent entity. So if some firm wants to get fully transparent with its customers, it's basically in their best interest to stay that way as they'll gain the trust of people... On the other hand they can decide not to go fully transparent - which could end up as a bad thing (they would lose the trust). So basically it depends on what are your preferences and based on that one can behave properly.

Thanks for your time. :)