> Crypto, by-in-large, is not predatory.
I disagree and believe crypto is by-in-large predatory. The crypto handbook seems to be:
1. create coin
2. promote coin and get people to 'invest' in it
3. move the 'invested' money ("rug pull") into your personal account
4. disappear or do it again
> there will always be people who don't value risk properly
This is true. But we cannot compare making a wrong call on the direction of highly regulated Microsoft stock with 'investing' our money with people who are almost certainly going to steal all of it with zero consequences.
> will affect your gambling experience
You call this gambling. But the crypto creators promote their coins as investments with 'exchanges' and so on.
Financial investments and gambling are both highly regulated industries but crypto is subject to regulations from neither.