Also, it doesn't consider the typical scam in the Bitcoin world where someone builds up immense positive reputation points and then goes off riding into the sunset with a single haul.
Not to mention that selling the data (or keeping ones own copy of it) a sparingly number extra times along the way is also a possibility.
I think you should not attach yourself emotionally to whether a certain perspective is "educational" or "instructive" to anyone. Rather, look at both perspectives in a [detached] clinical manner as just things that are.