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by ikeboy 3118 days ago
A lot of that dumb money is being put in by wall street, so not sure you're right.
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This is not my impression. It seems to me that the dumb money is people who made early fortunes in crypto or regular people looking to ride the next pump and dump. If Wall Street money is coming in it's mostly to take advantage of the dumb money for a quick profit, for example by getting preferential pricing or timing so they can sell to later investors).
I think most of the money that's going in is by people with more than the 250k limit. Above that you can market pretty much anything as long as you're honest, I think. So I don't think it would be affected much, except that ordinary users wouldn't be able to use it (unless they could get it on exchanges, which may be under different laws?)

Not a simple question, I guess.

What's the 250k limit? (If you're speaking of Accredited Investors, the limit is $1m in net worth not including primary residence.)
Maybe they're referring to the 200k income threshold for the other accredited investor test?
Yes, that. Remembered wrong.
> If Wall Street money is coming in it's mostly to take advantage of the dumb money for a quick profit,...

Examples? Is Goldman playing in the current bubble?