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16% of Americans say they have ever invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency > https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/11/16-of-americans-say-they-have
by trevorboaconstr 4y ago
16% of Americans say they have ever invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency
> https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/11/16-of-americans-say-they-have-ever-invested-in-traded-or-used-cryptocurrency/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/11/16-of-ameri...
The SEC has been crying foul of crypto-scheme’s since at least 2013.
> https://www.sec.gov/files/ia_virtualcurrencies.pdf https://www.sec.gov/files/ia_virtualcurrencies.pdf
Early journalistic opinion has had called out Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme years ago.
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/08/bitcoin-isnt-the-future-of-money-its-either-a-ponzi-scheme-or-a-pyramid-scheme/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/08/bitco...
Every major banker at Davos-, “ Bitcoin may be called a coin but it's not money. It's not a stable store of value," said Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.”
> https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/23/investing/davos-central-bank-digital-currencies-crypto/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/23/investing/davos-central-bank-...
Now why does that matter? Those are the people the general populace are exposed to the most. Not some peddler buying crypto ads on Twitch.TV for his new Buttcoin.