It appears it has become official. A judge has declared that Blockfi depositors have given their legal rights to the ownership of their coins when they sent them under Blockfi's custody. According to this article, $292 million of user deposits are owned by BlockFi.
So, exactly as was spelled out in BlockFi's Terms of Service, as I pointed out on this forum dozens of times, including this example from several years ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5308457.msg56070076#msg56070076BlockFi quite clearly stated that anything you deposit becomes their property, they will do what they like with it, and when it all goes to shit their users have zero legal protections.
So BlockFi took all the deposits, did anything they liked with them, it all went to shit, and now people are surprised they have zero legal protection?
Crypto is indeed very very risky.
I don't think bitcoin is that risky at all, especially when compared to ever-more-quickly imploding fiat. Buy bitcoin peer to peer, store in your own wallet, wait. Simple and safe. What
is risky is handing your bitcoin over to a bunch of complete strangers because they've promised you a gazillion percent gains.