The lack of financial education in general is a worrying problem. We teach students about literature, maths, science, ... and we tell them that those are the things they need to know in life. Yet usually, the largest single expense they will have on their lives is a house, and that normally comes with a mortgage. Yet, only a few schools will tell them what should they be expecting, the risks and the consequences of such a contract.
Bitcoin and alts is another case in which people are carefully kept in ignorance by the governments and lobbies.
What can we do to make more people interested in economy and finance and to better educate the youth so that they don´t get ripped-off?
Why would it be the government's responsibility to teach anyone about something it didn't create, doesn't control, and doesn't endorse as a currency or payment eco system? Basic financial education like the obligations of credit and home ownership would not entail education about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. There's no sinister plot to "keep people ignorant" by the government about crypto, there's just no mandate for that type of thing to be taught because it's not anything the government controls.
Although it is not the government who neither created nor control it, it is still the the government's responsibility to let its people know these kinds of things. They have to make them realize that the digital is rapidly evolving and they have to make these people to dive in.
That's the one thing they're wrong about cryptocurrency. They make these propaganda that talks about how messed up these coins are and not making them know what are its potential. Just because its decentralized, and they can't tax people if they earn from this, maybe that's why?