crypto's perennial scams and dumps seem to have created an irrational level of disgust for the entire crypto industry. I believe this disgust has overwhelmed ra

crypto's perennial scams and dumps seem to have created an irrational level of disgust for the entire crypto industry. I believe this disgust has overwhelmed rationality and curiosity. I think there is some merit to what you say. I will certainly allow that "guilt by association" as a heuristic is a Real Thing in my mind, and all the scammy crypto-crap has put me off on anything involving "crypto", "nft", "web3", etc. It's not just that though. It's still the case that, to date, nobody has presented me with any use-case where "crypto" in this sense really enables anything that can't be done another way. So far the best use-case for crypto still seems to be "buying drugs online in a vaguely pseudo-anonymous fashion". Oh, and conducting ransomware attacks, if you're into that sort of thing. That said, I will take the following to heart: but you haven't taken 30 minutes to read up on zero-knowledge proofs or stablecoin growth, or you haven't taken an hour to create a wallet and try products like Maker DAI, ENS, Compound, or Uniswap, then perhaps you aren't actually that curious, and/or you're letting your disgust of crypto scams get in the way of rational inquiry into crypto technology. and commit to spending some time this week looking into these things, just to see if there's something there.