[nicbou]

There's nothing about railways or the dot com bubble that facilitate scams. New frontiers attract greedy people. Greedy people attract scammers.

However these eventually become regulated. Lawlessness was a bug that was progressively fixed. In the case of crypto, it's a feature.

> Of course these are also the people against free speech

Leave those strawmen alone. Be the HN user you want HN to have.