> if you were intellectually honest you would agree that the decentralized web/crypto both have positives and negatives. If this were 2010 then I would agree t

> if you were intellectually honest you would agree that the decentralized web/crypto both have positives and negatives. If this were 2010 then I would agree that it's interesting technology with some possible use cases not yet clarified. But this is 2022, and it's now time to turn this around to focus on actual solution first, get-rich-quick as a possible incidental side effect. Because we've had over a decade now of get-rich-quick first, "maybe solve a real problem, not sure how because I've not talked to domain experts to find out what the real problems actually are" as incidental. Like, talk to any contract lawyer and ask them if "smart contract" is a solution to any of their hard problems. It's not. It just makes everything much worse. Or currencies. You can't just (at best) say you'll bolt on AML/KYC to your perfectly anonymous currency "later". And without AML/KYC it's not actually a solution that anybody wants (except very rare anarcho-libertarians and ransomware people). So does this whole space have positives? It's not impossible. Every single so-called solution in this space has made its intended space worse, and also created huge externalities (environment, e-waste (old mining rigs), resource shortages (GPU, SSD), etc...). But it's not impossible that any decade now something will actually be a solution. But because the "solutions" are also get-rich-quick schemes, the "inventors" don't want to wait for the solution to actually be... a solution. Launch now, get rich, problem (of not being rich) solved. Take PoS for example. Greta Thunberg is wrong to attack boomers. Looking at the age bracket of cryptocurrency supporters it seems that millennials are also pushing that whole "environment" thing to future generations. "Oh, it'll be fine with PoS eventually. But today we can burn the environment a bit because I gots to get paid". So no, it doesn't "have" positives. It's one of the infinitely many pools of ideas where positives could come from, but haven't yet.