This year is far from over, though, so it would be perfectly possible for us to see more blatant attempts by ill-intentioned people to try to take the money of the community and run away with it, you know.
To me, the most harmful event which have fallen upon the crypto community has been the launch and promotion by Javier Milie of the token/coin called Libra, which was basically and pump and dump scheme managed from the shadows of his administration.
Unfortunately, millions of people had trust on the president and such trust has been shattered because of the recklessness by him when advertising something which was conceived to be a scam from the beginning.