It is helpful for whoever is thinking of investing all their money in cryptocurrency and finds this on Google.

Exactly. People need to know that there are many ways to make all your money go poof in crypto.

What difference does that make? We aren't tech support.

I do hope he gets his money back, but he deserves some chiding as well.

It's not helpful there, but it's definitely worth discussing here.

I kind of feel like he got what he deserved? Like, it’s not fun to lose your life’s savings, but...

Nitpicking slightly, but "OP" is whoever started the thread in the forum where it is being discussed, not whomever wrote the original article. Only saying this because it keeps getting misused here on HN.

I think I’ve made that mistake too once or twice.

Do we have a good word that covers both the author of the post or the OP of the linked thread?