20 years of gaming familiarized me with the pattern. I also made a warning video several years ago about Austrian government involvement in a scam bot dating site that ripped people off when they signed up. They were required to pay a small credit card fee upon registering but if they didn't "cancel" their account before 24 hours $200 would be deducted, this is nothing new.

I think the tipping point for me in this cluster of clues came 2 days ago when I signed up as a freelancer instead of employer, this is a massive fraud with fake credentials and bot generated fomo.

It doesn't have anything to do with the underlying value of crypto, but the community should not be influenced by criminals or covert government agencies.

All it takes is awareness and verification that it is a real person on the other end.

If you need proof just sign up on upwork as a blockchain consultant and witness the mess in job listing first hand, ico and token scams galore mixed with fake linkedin profile creation requests. And the scam bot dating sites are still alive and well there also...

You can ask any exchange if they have problems with fraudlent account creation and voting...it's networks of thousands of fake accounts, it's not possible to do this manually.

I haven't looked, but Blackhatworld is probably having lots of fun with crypto right now.