This is simply objectively inaccurate, and reflects very poorly on the speaker's levels of bias when such false claims are parroted.
It's fine to not like cryptocurrency, but don't lie about it.
Ransomware would not exist without cryptocurrency: it was a major innovation (that subsequently enabled tons of new use cases, many of them criminal, some of them not).
>Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
People don’t owe crypto a ‘good attitude’. The only justifiable attitude toward it is a healthy scepticism until it proves to be anything more than a glorified pump and dump scheme. So far, it hasn’t cleared that bar in over a decade of trying.
It's fine to not like cryptocurrency, but don't lie about it.
Ransomware would not exist without cryptocurrency: it was a major innovation (that subsequently enabled tons of new use cases, many of them criminal, some of them not).