...or am I just getting trolled here? (not kidding).
There's plenty of money available to anyone willing to sell their services to the highest bidder.
Bitcoin threatens the interests of many entities, and those interests will have no difficulty whatsoever finding mercenaries to serve them for a buck.
They are also pretty good at what they do:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/There is no question that the psyops have been here since at least 2011 and especially at Reddit over the last year. you can tell who they are oftentimes and my favorite counter attack is to ask them why they're spending so much of their supposed valuable time on a forum trying to convince others not to use bitcoin. any self respecting individual would doing other more productive things you'd think. unless they're being paid to troll of course. usually that will shut them up or bring out some hypocrisy.