There are countless cases of anonymous developers spending several years building positive reputations on Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub etc. before disappearing w

There are countless cases of anonymous developers spending several years building positive reputations on Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub etc. before disappearing with >$10M USD of other people's cryptocurrency. Whether they set out to perform a long con, or whether the opportunity makes them thieves, is irrelevant - you simply can't trust anonymous people to look after your money.