>can’t seem to put together a single useful thread that is about crypto You will probably dismiss my reply as exactly the kind of comment you talk about, but t

>can’t seem to put together a single useful thread that is about crypto You will probably dismiss my reply as exactly the kind of comment you talk about, but the answer is simple. There is no useful discussion about crypto because there's nothing useful about crypto. That's why we keep going on circles. If countless of as you say smart, creative thinkers can't have a meaningful discussion about something, maybe the issue isn't the smart, creative, leading people, but the thing they can't seem to have anything to say about. It's a grift, it has no practical use other than crime or as a get-rich-quick scheme for disenfranchised zoomers and millennials who want to belong to the propertied class rather than actually work for a living. The usual retort is something like 'but the blockchain itself is revolutionary!', except that figuring out what it's good for is left as an exercise to the reader. People will of course consider this inflammatory but it's just calling a spade a spade and we'd be better served if people put their attention and time to discuss and learn about technology that serves real needs rather than inventing harebrained financial schemes that makes 1980s Japan look fiscally responsible in comparison.