fiat is no better

bank thefts
blackmails
murders for hire
pickpockets
card cloners
nigerian price phone scams
phishing for love 'my love i need hospital bill paid or i die next week
sugar daddies, girls marrying old guys just to get name on a will
corporate money laundering
the list goes on

the only difference between fiat and bitcoin is there is less (never zero, but less) chance of knowing who the other party is to slap them with a wet fish/court order.

so never trade with anyone you dont know anything about. unless you can slap them with a wetfish/court order should they do you wrong, dont trade.

AKA.. rule 1: stranger danger

movies such as oceans 11,12,13 wouldnt exist without all the Fiat scams and thefts inspiring the movies

clint eastwood would never have been famous without the old wild west gunslinging gold stealing bank robbing outlaws

Exactly this. This community isn't poisoned or worse than any other community... The world is poisoned. People are like this, not Bitcoin. People scamming with fiat always existed, always went to jail left and right, always were dishonorable. That won't change anytime soon, if at all, unfortunately.

These are the kinds of threads that give mainstream media something to jump on regarding saying crap about Bitcoin

People like these use Bitcoin taking advantage of its anonymity.
Things like this happen with fiat every single day.
There is no difference between them.

But don't you think that Bitcoin has its own particular brand of assholes?  Just a little bit more egregious than common assholes.

If this is not sarcasm, then I though you are old enough to know this better. Internet scams are nothing new, and certainly didn't start with the introduction of cryptocurrency.
There were purchase frauds of all kind, we had counterfeited postal money orders used to commit online fraud, online auction scams, PayPal frauds, call tag scams and MANY, MANY more scams.

Just read this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_fraud

I agree with every point you made except that your take that money is the root of all evil doesn't quite agree with the message of your post! Money of any kind is good, money is a servant and goes wherever it is sent. Any evil that gets in between, if you check again, emanates from humans. The heart of man is exceedingly treacherous, let's keep Bitcoin and even the fiats out of this, we are our problem!

Don't understand why you would include Protestants in your title?  are you catholic or atheist?

Here's a reason for you ...

"For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil"

If you think there is not any hackers, thieves, scammers, outside bitcoin, then you are fully wrong. When it's time of money scammers are everywhere, even in offices. In this case I don't advice you to go in any hackers place i think you could get a heart attack.


Maybe he wanted to say "Protesters" ? Me too i didn't understant the need to include a religion community


There are regulations (outside bitcoin) and still now it doesn't stop scammers from what i see

I find it hard to take you serious sometimes and this is defiantly one of those times, all communities are filled with people and once you add a financial incentive people show their true colours, it has nothing to do with bitcoin per se.  And no it will never change, self interest and greed is what makes bitcoin work........