Web3 is going just great
All the Web3 criticisms remind me of my experiences with Star Trek.<p>For context, I never watched Star Trek. I&#x27;d read stories about fans and it always struck me as the dorkiest possible show, with unabashed nerdiness making something like the Big Bang Theory look like a sophisticated work of art.<p>But one day, I listened to a podcast about strength training and a question came up about which Star Trek leader the host liked more. And I was struck by how they described them. They were leaders. Competent, skilled, and wise men.<p>This is not the impression I got listening from their rabid fans who were at their worst, at the far end of this (at least on first and worst impressions).<p>I&#x27;d watch some scenes and it was in some respects closer to sci-fi Shakespeare than anything else. And so this gap between reality and impression stuck with me. How could I be so swayed by the worst version of something that never existed?<p>Years later and the rabid users of cryptocurrency rile me up. There&#x27;s so much abuse and corruption happening in this space, metered with gambling addictions and delusions.<p>But the math and incentives are there. It would hard for me to make a case that eventually cryptocurrency will fail. There&#x27;s a wide surface area of financial problems that even fintech hasn&#x27;t solved yet. And a whole bunch of problems who we don&#x27;t even realize exist that can one day be solved by these new mathematical properties embedded into software.<p>So I&#x27;m not too keen on stepping too deeply into the cynicism. I&#x27;d like to wait without a final judgement on what it might become.<p>I don&#x27;t want to miss out on who Captain Picard might become.