Did they though? It might be my filter bubble, but whenever I saw web3 being pushed I saw a small refraction of responses of people who also thought it was a great idea (typical salesbros - so a good idea for others to do, just not for themselves). But the vast majority of people reject it for being a scam.
So how many people fell for it, really?
Did the average person/average internet user fall for it? No.
Did the people who fell for it get sucked into what was basically a cult that sucked the money out of a decent amount of people? Yeah.
The numbers for some of these scam projects were honestly insane.
Ah, probably my filter bubble then.
I’d like to read more about this, do you know of any specific cases?
If you have time, I would suggest CoffeeZilla on YouTube. He basically just get into crypto scam, which isn’t hard to find these days. One specific case I would look at is the influencers taking on pretty much any scam projects to get money. The series is with Oompaville. A great watch.
I don’t think it’s even possible to calculate how much real money was lost to this stuff.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
More than 0, which is all the comment said.
sab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If we’re just going for semantics, don’t you mean more than 1 for them to qualify as “people”?
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Damn it lol
sab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have a good weekend ;)