- exchanges that don't give a fuck and are not even hiding blatant wash trading, tape painting and spoofing.
- pump and dump groups with thousands of members on telegram dedicated to inflate the value of the coins of their choice and then dump their bags on poor bag holders who fund their gains before they run the thing to the ground.
- hackers who hack websites, wallets, exchanges, smart contracts
- scammers of all kind
- exchanges that will randomly confiscate your money and then you wait for months for customer support response, criminals
- 99% of icos are blatant cash grabs with no useful product or working prototype whatsoever and they are going to fail.
- miners that waste incredible amount of energy to mine mostly worthless funbux, ruin gpu market and occasionally enjoy cheap, even subsidized electricity while providing pitiful amount of new jobs.
- Crypto investors (speculators) who heavily shill their coins and fight with each other like a bunch of retarded children over whose funbuck is the god and which is worthless trash.
- "captains of the industry" who think they're next Edisons or Nikola Tesla while in fact they're making overpriced pogo sticks at best.
Yes, no doubt that kind of things are what have prevailed in the minds of many people when they hear the word "cryptocurrency", and it is the first thing that comes to mind when we think about the possibility of investing in cryptos. However, all these types of problems are not exclusive to the crypto-universe since those of us who have more than a decade working in different types of online businesses already know that the same seems to prevail in all types of Internet businesses. Nothing new under the sun.
What we should emphasize is the many advantages offered by investing in cryptos at the moment, and that in reality most cryptos users, taking the appropriate security measures, have not suffered significant problems.