If you make a significant amount of money outside of what they allow especially how they allow it makes you a huge target. Especially when you have the potential to empower others the same way. One could start a nation within a nation using a crypto. We know they don't want that. Not a coincidence at all in my opinion.
Bitcoin / Cryptos is one of the few things where no one can tell what your true net worth is. Even if you have shell companies, you can suss out a person's stock and real estate holdings. But vastly tougher with bitcoin.
If you have billions in net worth, you are self snitching. There are 1000s of millionaires in cryptos who live way under the radar. Smart move.
If you are a black man in 7 figures you are self snitching. White society LOVES nothing more than removing generational wealth money from black people.
The rappers who are on social media with stacks of money are almost always the poorest and the ones who actually owe more than they have. Diddy, Jay Z, 50 cent stopped bringing stacks of cash years ago. They have the black card, Amex platinum, or they can just sign something and the hotel, restaurant, if they go there regularly just sends it to their accountant firm.
I feel like some of them got rich so fast that they ended up doing stupid things that cost them their lives. This is true for some of them, I am sure of it. But then you have the other ones who can actually cause problems for the power's that be plans and they can't have that. So I would not be shocked to find they died in some strange fashion.