Do stupid things, win stupid prizes. Sorry, but when I read about this one person who “has always made sound financial choices but decided to put over 200.000 USD into crypto”, in my opinion, they forgot rule #1 and #2 in crypto: regard every penny you put in as a loss, and only put in what you can miss.
Of course, horrible, and stomach turning what happened to the countless victims. I’m not insensitive to that. Heart wrenching stories and horrible losses happening to real victims and companies. And real perpetrators, soulless scammers that probably sleep like babies at night without a single concern; may they fully be held to account for what they did.
But , there’s always a but. We all know what the many buts and ifs are. On one side, yes, it was all fueled by greed, pipe dreams, and illusions that frankly should have never been allowed to happen in the first place. The other but is one that I, with my fondness of Cardano, can’t help but feel towards the writer of the referenced story: don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. Yes, many scams in crypto, I hate that too, just like any in the dollar, euro, and other currencies, commodities and so on and so forth.
Where there is an ability to gain and profit, there will be dragons and exploiters, both for quick and easy gains and for the long con. It’s the nature of man. Shouldn’t be, but is, and locking up everything crypto under the sun under the guise of protection is not gonna help a single step, because after all, CBDCs and all kinds of other schemes are already walking similar paths. Be advised.
But I also know the large amount of good will and efforts, honest blood sweat and tears put into this ecosystem. In Cardano especially because that’s an ecosystem I have put my faith in. And if I lose it all, well, it’s a good thing I didn’t put my life savings, my kids’ tuitions, my retirement fund, my mortgage, my life savings, whatever, into it.