I’ve been asking this question for years too. Every time the answer is a batch of projects that make grandiose claims of solving very generic problems (e.g. “th

I’ve been asking this question for years too. Every time the answer is a batch of projects that make grandiose claims of solving very generic problems (e.g. “this is a global knowledge graph that ensures authors are always properly compensated”)… But the actual deployed use cases, if any, turn out to be just some kind of crypto derivatives in drag. In other words, there’s no real world economy bringing money into the system — it’s all just layers upon layers of trading shells where real money ultimately comes from speculators. There is a word for this kind of scheme.