The question is where regulation comes from.
The more that we impose best practices and reduce the level of scams the better regulation will be for everyone.
If we do nothing as a community then the regulation will be draconian.
I am (we are) trying to teach this to the GREEDY MASSES!
Thank you for showing us there are still some good people around here. Yes it can, but is our bitcoin community really exist? Even in this forum, most are cheating and scamming each others without any care. If this is the people we are part of, it was not a good influence to most newbies who wanted to learn in a legal way. We or half of the members might have good intentions but can be manipulated by others who have the different motives. I know that ignorance in any rules is not an exception but this regulation will only be effective if all of us will give effort to follow it.
I will give time for this community to mature the same way bitcoin does. After all it is still a decade old there so many room to improve and be organized.