Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?
You say you&#x27;ve done research, i&#x27;m curious how you did the research?  The standard go to reference from people who don&#x27;t like crypto is now is a 2 hour video that makes zero effort to look for any good.  It&#x27;s not alone, there are hundreds of videos that make bad faith effort to &quot;investigate&quot; crypto.  On the progressive left, for some reason it is becoming part of their culture to hate crypto (which is ironic considering a huge amount of their goals could be achieved easier using it)<p>I will say though, the more I dug into crypto the more I see a lot of actually amazing things.  I moved into the Avalanche chain, and it&#x27;s a radically differenent experience from Bitcoin and ETH frankly.  I don&#x27;t think ETH or Bitcoin got close to accomplishing their vision, but AVAX is different.  I&#x27;m making transactions all the time (I made almost 700 transactions last year... the taxes part absolutely sucks).  I&#x27;m not going to try enumerate the ways I think crypto is useful but i&#x27;d question the sources you&#x27;re using.<p>One big thing i&#x27;d point out, the vision of crypto is still pretty far out. There are many infrastructure pieces missing.  DAPP&#x27;s Development seems WAY slower than centralized services.  A smart contract is like hardware development.  You basically want to get it perfect before you release it.  Move fast and break things could mean a 50 million dollar hack in crypto.  That doesn&#x27;t make crypto useless or bad.  Just a thing you need to think about.<p>EDIT: I went back about 3 seconds after positing this to fix a spelling mistake, and I was downvoted.  It would be nice to get a comment with each of your downvotes.  In the past upvotes and downvotes were signal of quality (not agreement)