Yes. This is the sad truth. Cryptocurrency is about network effects; more users, more value^2. Today it is really the way to monetize a large collection of us

Yes. This is the sad truth. Cryptocurrency is about network effects; more users, more value^2. Today it is really the way to monetize a large collection of users, whereas it in the past perhaps was advertisement. Perhaps it should be illegal in the same way a chain letter or pyramid scheme is illegal. However right now it is not.