It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
I could waste a huge amount of time refuting the author&#x27;s points, but will make it more of a meta comment.<p>Crypto is vast, complex, and inherently not suitable for binary thinking. I&#x27;ve studied the space for months and have come to the conclusion that crypto is two-sided in almost every aspect.<p>Many&#x2F;most coins are speculative, which you can associate with words like &quot;greed&quot; and &quot;casino&quot;. Yet also provide wealth savings&#x2F;growth to people locked out of it in our traditional system.<p>NFTs are a cruel joke right now, yet ridiculous as they are, may be a precursor to various groundbreaking uses having real utility, in an exponential way.<p>Smart contracts are largely dysfunctional, yet there&#x27;s early success in replacing financial products like staking, lending, leverage. When it works, it&#x27;s permission-less, which has interesting social benefits (access not defined by your identity&#x2F;social class).<p>And so on.<p>I&#x27;m not here to debate any of these points, my only point is to not dismiss crypto as a whole (binary thinking) and to not underestimate it. The topic is too complex for it.