> Doesn't really speak positively or poorly on cryptocurrency as a technology though. Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum though, and the fact that so much of

> Doesn't really speak positively or poorly on cryptocurrency as a technology though. Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum though, and the fact that so much of the ecosystem that sprung up around crypto is rotten is a hint that maybe the technology isn't all that useful. Crypto's nominal reason to exist is to have a way to transact without government oversight, but its popularity is due mostly to speculation and outright scams enabled by said lack of oversight.