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is the advice given by those who want to dump to those who are supposed to sacrifice their money for the noble cause of pushing the price up.

I enjoy your skepticism, but I think your a little sinister, hold is the advice given to noobs who buy high and then want to sell low.
Yes, I was being a bit of a troll there. But just a bit.

Just buy one is the pump. In 2011 @$2 I gave the same advice I give today just buy 1, [ ... ]
I appreciate your advice and offer for help, and I am sure it is made with the best of intentions; but do you realize that it sounds like "you speak badly of dugs, here, try some crack and I am sure you will change your mind."

Seriously: In one of his articles/interviews, Mark Andreessen made it a point of saying that he did not own any bitcoins himself. Can you guess why? (I believe I know.)
The thing with scams and stealing is real but it adds value, to the system. The idea of justice you keep is an authority meme built on the meme that all land belongs to someone and you have to rent or buy it. The only rules in reality are based on natural selection viewed through the lens of universally preferred behavior, dynamic not entropic.
I guess we don't have enough common ground to discuss those issues then...
