If something (not Bitcoin, but just speaking generally) is a scam, the quality of self-sustainment wouldn't make it any less of a scam. The idea that being able

If something (not Bitcoin, but just speaking generally) is a scam, the quality of self-sustainment wouldn't make it any less of a scam. The idea that being able to sustain a scam somehow legitimizes it, is essentially how Bernie Madoff justified his actions. “Everybody thinks the worst of me. The only thing I’m happy about is I was able to help people recover … There’s nothing for me to change from. It’s not like I ever considered myself a bad person.” https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/bernie-madoff-interview-104838 https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/bernie-madoff-intervi... "The facts were that the majority of my individual clients were net winners." https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/07/in-new-emails-madoff-says-fraud-wasnt-so-bad.html https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/07/in-new-emails-madoff-says-fr...