I'd be less skeptical if these werent introduced at the same time rampant speculation on valueless currencies or tokens became profitable. It's kind of obvious

I'd be less skeptical if these werent introduced at the same time rampant speculation on valueless currencies or tokens became profitable. It's kind of obvious the real impetus is to capture the need of investors to get constantly increasing returns from speculation, and that new agreed upon stores of values of required to be created as old ones get too expensive to enter.