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You just can't win.

If you're rich, like Bill Gates, and say crypto is a bad idea, then you're just an old codger holding on to what power you have before the future leaves you in the dust.

If you're not rich, then you're a salty no-coiner who didn't get in on the train early and is now just having fun being poor.

As opposed to crypto currency proponents who have nothing to sell you? I assume you make this same point on those posts too?

Selling an $8 ebook is a financial conflict of interest, but having tens of thousands of dollars riding on the fluctations of cryptoassets is having "skin in the game", which is totally different.

author here - I can confirm that it is never not hilarious when bitcoiners, whose sole topic of conversation is the price of bitcoin in US dollars, can't think of any worse thing to say to me than "but you sell a book for money!!"

If you want to get rich selling books than you have to write about getting rich. These crypto books or self-help books are best sellers. If you write an anti-corruption book, good luck finding readers or someone that believes in your narrative of have fun staying poor.