Actually they are asking so called experts who are over 50 for Advice on a Tech that has just arrived. And it's no wonder that they are unable to muster what the Potential of Cryptocurrencies are.
They are saying baseless things like Cryptocurrencies are Promoting scams but the Bottom line is Scammers will scam anyway they can even before Cryptocurrencies came to limelight there were several ongoing Scams but no one highlights that fact.