I sort of like these kind of markets though, they definitely reward traders who take the time to understand what they're trading.

Crypto is a swamp of projects that will take your money and spin you a story about getting rich and inevitably rugpull you. It's full of centralized exchanges that are shady and exploitative in the best case and downright scams in the worst case.

It's also full of people who fundamentally believe that permissionless programmable money is something that could fundamentally change the world and passionately chase the goal of making it better every day.

Those projects are still risky because technology is never perfect and that's a big deal when it's moving large amounts of value from place to place but if you can tolerate the risk the potential for long-term benefit is there.