I think it gets lost in the messaging when people say "crypto is a scam". I think they mean to say precisely what you did, but when people yell "cryto is a scam

I think it gets lost in the messaging when people say "crypto is a scam". I think they mean to say precisely what you did, but when people yell "cryto is a scam" it makes the random Coinbase user who bought .0001 BTC wonder how the hell they are scamming people. It doesn't make them think - huh, maybe Coinbase (or more importantly, Celsius, or BlockFi or FTX, etc.) itself is the scam, and I'm being scammed.