It's hard to separate from the sea of grifters, con men, cranks, and scammers that infest the domain. Just using the word is a yellow flag that you might be some kind of whacko, even if all you really want to talk about is the math.
People have to forever be on guard that you might at any point pivot to all taxation is theft or how you have formed your own micro nation that consists entirely of yourself and thus have diplomatic immunity from all prosecution. Because it happens. Or maybe you have a once in a lifetime deal to buy this receipt like object for some hideous art that is guaranteed to appreciate in value millions of percent. It's just the crowd that has aggregated around crypto currencies includes a lot of untrustworthy people.
Why do people need to be on guard for those beliefs? People should be critical thinkers and not thought police.
Granted, there are all kinds of whackos in crypto, but we should only be concerned about the immoral ones trying to scam us out of our money: SBF, Do-Kwon, and the like.
people are legitimately buying farming land in the US and currently suing farmers for "anti-trust" for refusing to sell them their land so that they can quite literally create a crypto based sovereign micro-nation of wealthy tech VC's. [1] and I think that is a selfish, vile and delusional thing to do. It has nothing to do with "thought police" its as simple as looking at the impact of their actions and beliefs and making the decision to reject that way of thinking and way of life.
