In the crypto economy and especially here within the forum, you will find a lot of projects. A lot of projects may never get off of the ground. I think marketing experts end up unknowingly (
giving them the benefit of the doubt) being involved with what may at first seem like legitimate projects. I don't think every project presented is a scam, but do believe that many might have failed because they couldn't sustain themselves, meet there quota,couldn't keep up with similar competitors, or they probably flopped right out of the starting gate and became a dead/obsolete project. I think that many crypto related businesses don't seem to always have a strong enough backing, marketing or don't have a fluent enough community for support. A lot are lacking funding, resulting in a delay or cancellation of an entire project.
However, you are right though, there seems to be a new scam every day or so involving crypto-currency, not just on the forums. The way that I see it, in my opinion is this, Block-chain is a relatively new sector within digital ledger accounting, so there is bound to be an equal number of scams that crop up to compensate with the legitimate opportunities (
like ying/yang, if you belive that sort of thing).
This is why I believe the crypto community/economy
(including the social groups, merchants, entrepreneurs, developers,speculators) need to meet at a middle ground with the institutions and regulators in order to receive clear and proper guidance, this way we don't have to tip toe cautiously through the legal gray areas, whereas we could walk an illuminated path as we're all blazing the trail together.
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This isn't financial or legal advice, as I am not a qualified representative of or advocate for, I'm just here to post my two cents!"