> It doesn't feel like we are any closer to normal people using it for normal real world transactions/finance. Crypto was always just a way for nerds to legall

> It doesn't feel like we are any closer to normal people using it for normal real world transactions/finance. Crypto was always just a way for nerds to legally get rich quick. (When before that opportunity was limited to various finance types.) Whether that's good or bad is up to you. (It's not like the various non-digital "financial instruments" we've had for a long time before crypto were doing much good for normal real world transactions.)