I guess it's possible that most people who turned out to be scammers had good intentions initially. Still, I had a real plan to drive adoption and create something positive in crypto. I did implement something positive on the tech side which largely fell on deaf ears but I sometimes think that it's precisely because I wasn't a scammer, that people sensed I wouldn't bend, that I wasn't 'allowed' to make it in that industry.

There is definitely a belief in this industry that its primary intent was to demoralise those fleeing the traditional system... Almost as a way to scare them back towards papa fiat.

Crypto, as it turned out, was likely a case of the fiat system playing good cop bad cop with the world's nerds. To push them around and demoralise them into apathy and compliance.