When other scammers saw how naive people are, and how easy is to trick them out of their money, they also started producing systems for creating the illusion of asset. The illusions, produced by these systems are known by the name "cryptocurrencies". And are now popping up all over the place like mushrooms after rain.
I may chose to believe this to an extent but we need to clarify that not every cryptocurrency aside bitcoin is an illicit project or bad investment, even though we have a good number of the ones in in disguise as a coin but in real sense they utilize the opportunity to safely hide under such in other to suave away user's investment asset along the way, that is why running a background check on any project or crypto coin is very important, knowing who were those behind a specific coin, but in other to save the long and unnecessary stress bitcoin is the best investment over times.