Cryptocurrency has bad reputation because a lot of scammers. Scammers are not punished for their scams and this provokes them to a new fraud.
While the cryptocurrency is anonymous scammers will be difficult to punish.
Many users of cryptocurrencies consider their anonymity to be the main advantage of cryptocurrencies. And you offer to refuse from anonymity.
Because of this reputation, people prefer not to mess with cryptocurrency, on the other hand, anonymity has attracted not only scammers.