> Both of these things neatly skip any sort of bootstrapping phase So true. That bootstrapping phase has been reduced to dream up a whitepaper and that's basic

> Both of these things neatly skip any sort of bootstrapping phase So true. That bootstrapping phase has been reduced to dream up a whitepaper and that's basically it. All what comes afterwards to pump the launch is clever marketing (I've seen Google ads, FB ads, celebs on Twitter etc etc). I cannot understand why it is legal to behave like that.