When the world wide web was new, everyone could see that the idea of it was appealing, the skepticism came from the fact that people weren't at all certain that

When the world wide web was new, everyone could see that the idea of it was appealing, the skepticism came from the fact that people weren't at all certain that online commerce would be financially viable... and it wasn't! At the time of the dot com crash huge numbers of companies collapsed. Sure companies like Amazon seems to have been around since time immemorial but its just one of the ones that survived, it could just as easily have disappeared. For crypto, the criticisms are well founded. Crypto generates enormous amounts of pollution, facilitates money laundering, the sale of illegal goods and all manner of scams and for what? The shittiest database you could imagine.