[karlmcguire]

> It certainly didn’t help that the crypto community was choke-full of conspiracy theorists, libertarians that never read anything else after falling in love with Ayn Rand as teenagers, and get-rich-quick schemers.

I agree. Because of the nature of cryptocurrency, the industry has always just been wrought with fraud.

It has something to do with Telegram chats, the "wild west" feeling, semi-anonymous currency transactions, and the feeling most people have that there is (or was) a real possibility that they could gamble and win big with little effort.

The entire industry can almost be seen as a giant, anonymous slot machine.