A "true believer" isn't able to carry out their work without a marketplace. Nobody lost money in crypto on the scale we're seeing 5 years ago.

The largely unregulated, uninsured, and opaque marketplace of crypto, facilitated by people like SBF, has been the conduit for the true believers.

If somebody says "I know you're a sucker and I'm going to take your money", (as SBF did in Levine interview) they just told you everything you need to know. You can rest assured that their other dealings are dirty, as is now coming to light for SBF.

I'm not sure why "good faith" is being brought into question, and I certainly haven't challenged the good faith of those who disagree with me. So I'm not going to address that aspect of the conversation.