[TheMaskedCoder]

Actually, this seems like a rather interesting defense of crypto. To use the metaphor, did the trough create the pigs? Or did it only draw a horde of pre-existing pigs to one place? Perhaps the amount of quasi-criminals that we are seeing in the crypto sector right now is just a sign that crypto was highly successful and not a condemnation of crypto in and of itself.

[Semaphor]

You are half right. It obviously did not create the pigs, but the "trough" is the place for easy pickings: Crypto. Of course Crypto did not create scammers, scammers simply have an easy time scamming people there.

[ajhurliman]

Agreed 100%, but troughs are good for other things besides feeding pigs. I hope the actually innovative, non-scam projects don't have their name tarnished too much by all the pigs.

[sebastialonso]

Am I understanding this correctly? The very fact that the Crypto scene was filled with criminals is direct evidence that "it works"?

Is this a soft implication that the same scene should "continue" to exist as it currently is?

[wffurr]

Successful at what, enabling criminal activity?