The bitcoin white paper misleads:
"The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins..."
Point being:
White paper does not mention halving !
Whitepaper doesn't mention difficulty adjustment, or 21M BTC limit either, but who is the victim of scam in this and who is the scammer? How is that scammer benefiting from this?
Code is literally open source that you can review and that's changed from time to time and everyone can participate to development and all the changes need to be approved by majority of the miners. So did you lose money because you just found out that there's limited amount of bitcoins and you bought a miner, or what? Because if you did, maybe it's your fault that you didn't look at the development that happened in last 15 years. I mean would you invest to microsoft now, based on press release from 2008, without looking at any delvelopment after that? And then if anything had changed, you would call it a scam. Even constitutions get modified for christ sake.