> there doesn’t seem to be anything in the entire crypto industry that isn’t fraud or crime

> If the only answer is “crpyto” and essentially all crypto is fraud

Emphasis mine.

There can be no intelligent conversation with someone whose confirmation bias is so deep they live in a black-and-white world.

You have no interest in a conversation, only shouting slogans and exaggerated claims.

so, your main supposition about crypto being all fraud is inaccurate, and the standards you present apply to fields you respect as well. for example, north korean expropriation and fraud is happening across the entire tech space, even a bunch of remote roles in the US are and were filled with north koreans, hence supporting the nuclear program [1]

this is a common theme I’ve seen that reinforced my perspective: the criticism applies to things the critic respects and the critic saying it doesn't seem to know that, and they also don’t seem to even be aware of other benign things in the crypto space that are working fine and fit the social contract of all participants. I don't know if thats you, but it is applicable to the responses you chose

so that observation, in combination with how so many intelligent researchers and programmers take a different approach ultimately towards improving the crypto space due to its malleability, keeps me interested and confused by the unsubstantive and reductive nature of HN consensus on this one topic

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/north-korea-it-workers-us-h...