> They’re complicated and stand to harm mostly those who inflicted it on themselves
They're about as "inflicted on yourself" as most fraud is. You could say that a grandma getting scammed by a person pretending to be a government official[0] also brought it on herself, and so did the guy scammed by an insurance MLM. The truth is, there's enough of buzz around cryptocurrencies that it starts to impact regular citizens[1]. It's becoming a public issue, and so it's a perfect moment for the government to step in and start dealing with the fraudlent part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
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[0] - Recent subject of fraud prevention campaigns by the police in Poland, not just a stereotype.
[1] - Hell, I heard a story about cryptoexchanges in local radio news this very morning.
They're about as "inflicted on yourself" as most fraud is. You could say that a grandma getting scammed by a person pretending to be a government official[0] also brought it on herself, and so did the guy scammed by an insurance MLM. The truth is, there's enough of buzz around cryptocurrencies that it starts to impact regular citizens[1]. It's becoming a public issue, and so it's a perfect moment for the government to step in and start dealing with the fraudlent part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
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[0] - Recent subject of fraud prevention campaigns by the police in Poland, not just a stereotype.
[1] - Hell, I heard a story about cryptoexchanges in local radio news this very morning.