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by trevorboaconstr 1460 days ago
16% of Americans say they have ever invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency

> https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/11/16-of-ameri...

The SEC has been crying foul of crypto-scheme’s since at least 2013.

> https://www.sec.gov/files/ia_virtualcurrencies.pdf

Early journalistic opinion has had called out Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme years ago.

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/08/bitco...

Every major banker at Davos-, “ Bitcoin may be called a coin but it's not money. It's not a stable store of value," said Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.”

> https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/23/investing/davos-central-bank-...

Now why does that matter? Those are the people the general populace are exposed to the most. Not some peddler buying crypto ads on Twitch.TV for his new Buttcoin.