A freelance crypto developer is likely to have access to repos of other Blockchain projects, once his machine is compromised the attackers may be able to push malicious code to other repos and spread the virus or execute an attack like the one on Safe.

> I think crypto is full on BS but I have many very smart, self aware friends who are into blockchain.

Smarts have little to do with this. You can be smart and still not see that it's BS. Or you are smart, see it's BS and still think it's a good way to make money (by essentially ripping off those who don't see that it's BS). Or you just don't care and it's just a job. Fine too, everybody draws a line for themselves with what's acceptable. Some don't work in weapons, some not in nuclear, some not in crypto.

> What this is a strong filter for people likely to have crypto wallets on their dev machines.

A dev that keeps a live wallet with anything but toy money on their dev machine may have other problems. Bringing me back to my original point from above that this is a filter.

they may be self aware but if they're into blockchain they're unlikely to be scam aware!

Or they think that they are smarter than others, and could make a profit with the scammy market…

which has historically been a very rich vein of marks for scammers to exploit

Or for them it is just another job that pays the bills and they really like working on interesting problems, as opposed to the "stable" corporate jobs.

/jk, who would fall for that lol? /jk/jk Source: I work in blockchain, you can easily dox me in a single google search