I think we're talking past one another. I'm sure there's plenty of ways to make money by flipping various crypto assets. Where we disagree is our value judgeme

I think we're talking past one another. I'm sure there's plenty of ways to make money by flipping various crypto assets. Where we disagree is our value judgement of that. I just don't see that as being useful per se, imo there's enough ways to move numbers around using computers already, a novel one can't really get me all that excited, especially considering its resource cost. I have yet to see a good argument for crypto that doesn't boil down to that. I think it's one of those "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" scenarios. Marketplace volume isn't a good in itself if the markets don't do anything useful and waste a bunch of energy, but to people bought into crypto and capitalism really deeply it seems to be enough to get excited.