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I don't think it has something to do with FOSS but rather with blockchain developers. Most projects have nice landing pages but very vague messages.

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> Most projects have nice landing pages but very vague messages.

It's to cover up the fact that most of them don't actually do anything very new, interesting, or in some cases (esp around Ethereum) even enforceable.

Agreed. While you're not paying for using the product by buying a software license, you're often required to buy tokens (get it?) in order to use the product. The developers benefit from the increase in token price, because they often own a lot of those tokens.

Not that this is necessarily unethical, but it's good to know the incentives behind this.

wouldn't that be considered illegal market manipulation if they were somehow doing the same thing with US currency?

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