Right, but this is not the fault of the people working on crypto. The (good) people working in crypto are working based on principles and values. The ones people keep talking about are the ones working to find a way to make a quick buck without any actual value built for society.
I spent a good part of the last cycle (from 2018 until mid last year) working on an open source self-hosted payment gateway for crypto (https://hub20.io). Even with my ridiculous ideas for how to run marketing and promoting my work and doing basically everything possible to stay away from the radar of the scammers and hype-riders, they were the ones getting to my matrix room and coming up with proposals for "partnerships". The quickest way to get to disappear was by saying "If you think that my project is such a good idea and so valuable, how about you sponsor my work on Github? I'll take even a contribution of the smallest $4/month tier as a signal of interest. If you do it, then I'll listen."
Chalk this one up to human nature and our lizard brains, I guess.
I spent a good part of the last cycle (from 2018 until mid last year) working on an open source self-hosted payment gateway for crypto (https://hub20.io). Even with my ridiculous ideas for how to run marketing and promoting my work and doing basically everything possible to stay away from the radar of the scammers and hype-riders, they were the ones getting to my matrix room and coming up with proposals for "partnerships". The quickest way to get to disappear was by saying "If you think that my project is such a good idea and so valuable, how about you sponsor my work on Github? I'll take even a contribution of the smallest $4/month tier as a signal of interest. If you do it, then I'll listen."
Chalk this one up to human nature and our lizard brains, I guess.