It's dangerous to do the contrary of what the banks want us to believe they are doing, because that could be a way to get us to do exactly what they want too. We just gotta be very strong when it comes to transparency so that we can tell when stuff like that is happening.
I am glad that you are not only in it for profit, very proud. Speak up! The reason ETH forked is because they knew they were going full PoS and they didn't want to deal with the hacker having so much power...
Stay away from Ripple too, that was the first banks' attempt in the crypto space to trick us.
Profit does not equal benefit, that's like investing in weapons because you think war is always going to be a thing.
I don't think associating the word Illuminati with it is a good idea because I think that word is a distraction, it makes it easier for people to accuse you of being a conspiracy theorist.