And frankly, that's an entirely reasonable result for having invested in Bitcoin at any number of times, which was also by all reasonable measures a bad idea. I think even people who support the existence and value of crypto would agree that Bitcoin winners are most like stock-lottery winners than particularly savvy investors.

Crypto is great for scams even beyond it's infrastructural advantages because a lot of people made a ton of money from investing money they couldn't afford to lose in things that were pretty indistinguishable from the actual scams.