This is well written. It is not very balanced, the author obviously hates cryptocurrency. His main beef seems to be that software engineers had a hand in buildi

This is well written. It is not very balanced, the author obviously hates cryptocurrency. His main beef seems to be that software engineers had a hand in building it, and should know better. Well, to me the same principle could be applied to instagram, facebook, tiktok... platforms with seemingly little real purpose and probably net negative impact on society, where software engineers deliberately built systems to manipulate human attention while reaping large rewards for themselves. The negative externalities are less tangible but still real: new kinds of human suffering, turning hollow eyed vanity and dancing in front of a mirror into a career option, the spread of misinformation etc. But I guess he wants to write about bitcoin. > The world is an increasingly strange place and one of my favourite quotes about the times we’re living through is that we’re all all in a superposition of being both overwhelmed and underwhelmed. This does seem spot on.