Crypto is pretty much just people tearing down Chesterton's Fence and then going "surprised Pikachu" when most of the protections they bypassed turned out to be necessary.

It can also be hard not to blame the victim after they responded to skepticism with shrill political diatribes, although that's not a new trick when it comes to fraud schemes. The guys trying to sell bogus patents for tapwater-powered cars in decades past used similar rhetoric in order to make pawns out of the gullible. "It's not a scam! That's just what they want you to think!"