> None of this is shady. It's fully legal, taxes are paid, it's like stocks. Yet according to him, any trade in crypto is shady.
True, there has been a lot of activity that was no worse than gambling. Let's tally up everything that's come out of the space, good and bad, and ask where it comes out on net. Somewhere in region of "a giant casino with a mad electricity bill on an island with no cops, teeming with scumbags who busy themselves with fleecing the innocent suckers in there desparate to come away with one of the lambos on stage". Yes, you pay tax on your winnings when you get back to the mainland.
> Or, the claim that the 800 billion market cap of Bitcoin is solely based on Tether. That's an absurd statement.
"800 billion market cap of Bitcoin" is already an absurd statement.