waxwing on Nostr: He's definitely within this paradigm. But it does remind me that I'm very conflicted ...

He's definitely within this paradigm.

But it does remind me that I'm very conflicted on all this, because I see no ethical basis for even trying to prevent people gambling with bitcoin, or indeed starting any kind of crazy crypto scheme, if it's voluntary between the parties.

But I'm unusual because I don't think fraud (as in, lying about the thing you sell) should be illegal.

Pretty clearly using some kind of social (or even government) status to scam people is about as low as it gets though, so, yeah, conflicted.