I mean I get your point and it kinda stands, but the latest batch of crypo fueled wealthy people are less the pioneer/early movers and more the "I'll create a crypto product nobody understands and, boom it has a market cap of a couple hundred billion!". And since you can trade whatever crypto you want for eth, all you have to do is convince people your coin is worth something and you can do exactly the above thing.
I think you are falling prey to selection bias. Yes there are many scammy projects that made a few people rich, and a handful of non scammy projects, but the vast majority do not work.
The recipe for creating fake dollars in crypto is pretty well established at this point
> they need “$320 million” in crypto which is easy enough to create out of thin air
Second, this is an illustration of basically what you've just articulated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27149241
Not a perfect analysis but there's about $114B circulating in crypto: https://tomtunguz.com/how-much-money-flowing-into-crypto/
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This absolute reeks of the type of baseless claim that someone living in a bubble surrounded by NFT fanatics would claim. Be careful not to think that the trends within your social network are indicative of the population as a whole.
This part puzzles me to - immediately agreeing to plug the $320Million hole really makes you wonder how there is that much money freely available to just pay people back so easily.