Scam heuristics: investor-facing sites, buzzwords, closed source
"How to Pivot your Career in Crypto and AI | Builder's Diary #9 with Greg Osuri" (Finality Crypto Podcast (DeFi Times))
“The moment you see a website geared towards investors, that’s generally a scam. Because you’re not focused on getting users… every time you see DePIN on a website, like front and center… DePIN didn’t exist six months ago… Close source is a scam, generally speaking. And when you have founders that come out of nowhere… generally [regard] them as a scam.” — 01:04:35
Context: Closing safety advice (spans into the 01:05:24 block); he warns that FTX/Celsius-style patterns are reappearing in “smaller protocols… with outsized numbers that are closed source.”