Bitcoin is neutral and almost uninfluentiable by any single party. It‘s neutral, all the rules are out there, nobody has an information advantage. With Ethereum it‘s a bit more difficult because it has a history of being very transparent but there is still Vitalik as the BDFL. Almost everything else in „crypto“ is a mostly centralized system with the same points of failure as traditional financial systems (IoUs => bank rund). It is dishonest to conflate Bitcoin with all these possible scams. I hope Ethereum can establish itself as a neutral, natural law kind of system as well (removing Vitalik from the equation). Because on top of Ethereum more people can built trust less systems that can have bugs but that can‘t really be scams because all the mechanics are public and nobody can have an information advantage.