> How can this many brilliant people work on an area for this long and produce almost nothing of value? To be fair, it made some folks who got lucky and bought

> How can this many brilliant people work on an area for this long and produce almost nothing of value? To be fair, it made some folks who got lucky and bought in early nice and wealthy. Which then attracted a gaggle of shysters, hucksters and fraudsters. When you drill down the key thing that gets people sucked in to Satoshi's Blockchain, it is naked greed. Everything layered on top about the technology, or "DLT" or whatever buzzwords these people spout is just window dressing. All of them want to Get Rich Quick and drive off into the sunset in a lambo from their bitcoin gainz.