I can't go with the racist bits but there is a gypsy mafia just as rich and dangerous as the Italian one.  Altcoins are a perfect way to make easy money: put up an ANN with nice colorful graphics, some buzzwords, get a someone techy to clone some coin, pay Bittrex to host the ICO, call it something cool and the American neckbeards shovel money at you. Can make a million bucks (such as BitBay did handily) with $2000.00 upfront and no bullets, drugs, prostitutes, car theft, etc. Actually more than a million if I understand ICOs correctly as you have the BTC from the ICO and then more when you dump on all the naive college kids who think they'll be in a Lambo because of Xbitsuperdarkdoganon coin or some such.  As those who care can look to see I'm close to some of the parties involved in the LiteCoinDark mess; their dev pissed off the wrong people and his coin died as they said they'd do.  The fellow was a scammer it turned out anyway so no loss but a bit of a lesson how racist things said on the internet just don't float off into forget-forget land.  Craigscoin also seemed die much harder and faster than seems in retrospect to make sense.  The dev there was a wanker but he did actually have a functioning (albeit rough about the edges) product. Other than pissy Romanians angry at how WWII ended off there's a long line of other people with no love for Russians.