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> Is that like just letting every Bernie Madoff's scam run its course -- eventually retail investors and retirement funds will learn to stop investing in scams?
by manholio 4y ago
> Is that like just letting every Bernie Madoff's scam run its course -- eventually retail investors and retirement funds will learn to stop investing in scams?
Madoff was a scammer operating in a well regulated traditional financial space, where legitimate investment funds exist.
The authors here propose segregating crypto from traditional finance by forbidding fiat fiduciaries to invest in crypto at all. Basically, recognize that most of the crypto is zero sum speculative game that has no legitimate investments, just like banks today are forbidden from purchasing lottery tickets with their depositors' money.
- 411111111111111 4y ago> just like banks today are forbidden from purchasing lottery tickets with their depositors' money. Crypto should legally be considered gambling, because that's what it is. The scammers are just this generations gambling houses and the early adoptees are the equivalent to how the house always let's people win to get more people playing. It's inherently gambling, just slightly obscured.