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Why would someone expect cryptocurrencies to be fun? It’s fintech. Money isn’t fun, it’s money.

• Darmody 6y ago
  There's more than money. Some coins like Ethereum have a network behind them on top of which you can do a lot of stuff.
  • ben_bai 6y ago
    Like sia (siacoin) which is used to pay for distributed storage. But still needs mining to keep going, which distracts from it's purpose. Rent and lend storage space. I which there where some other distributed consensus mechanism which doesn't rely on massive mining.
    • erikbye 6y ago
      Lots of uses other than pure fin transactions. Most people are blind to this. E.g. https://golem.network/ https://golem.network/
• phire 6y ago
  A lot of bitcoin/cryptocurrency early adopters were there because it's fun. Especially in 2009 and 2010 before bitcoin proved it could have value, but even up to about 2016, a lot of people still seemed to be attracted due to the fun. And a lot of those people ended up in leadership positions.