I still can't figure out why people thought that "investing" was sending sending anonymous currency to an unregistered company to buy "Shares" despite sec regulations. This wasn't high risk investing, this was fraud. Once you clear your head of the idea that maybe this was like buying lottery tickets, and realize that ALL OF YOU should be contacting the authorities and demanding ken refund your deposit value at the beginning, you will be able to agree on all these topics.
I think everyone understood this to be the wild west. That doesn't mean all issuers are scammers -- there have been BTC security success stories.