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Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”

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Re: Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”

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I often wonder to what extent scams like this have positive externalities, insofar as the people who get scammed were perhaps unlikely to allocate capital in socially efficient ways.

Eugenics-like slippery slope, there.

Re: Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”

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I often wonder to what extent scams like this have positive externalities, insofar as the people who get scammed were perhaps unlikely to allocate capital in socially efficient ways.

Are the scammers now in possession of $7.7B likely to "allocate capital in socially efficient ways"?
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