This is really just a great rundown of all the typical crap thrown around in one place.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/06/the_dark_equation_of_harm/

At this point in time, based on a dozen years of practical experience, no experiment in cybercurrency – or anything blockchain – is fixing real problems. Smart contracts? Not so smart [PDF]. NFTs? Ffffft.

If you want a mildly entertaining few minutes, go and search for “successful blockchain projects.” You’ll find lots of lists of the top 13, or 30, or 56, “most disruptive” or “most promising” or “must-watch” projects, some with big names attached. Most profitable? Most effective? Most indispensable? You must be joking.

Try running a search for “top crypto scams”, though, and you’ll find a much healthier market.

Blockchain is bunkum. It hasn’t done anyone any good, excepting boosters, crims and enablers. When the best you can say about a technology is that it has roughly the same role in crime online as stolen art does in the physical world – a useful token of value that is harder to track than bank transfers – you’re not making the world a better place.

so ramp up the reporting requirements on the exchanges. It takes the will to say this is a failed experiment: it is, and it’s robbing people of many billions.

It’s had its chance. Bust blockchain back to the lab.

In reply to @chrislas:jupiterbroadcasting.com
It seems possible. But it seems like anything of that nature you'd see comin a bit down the road. So you could leverage the price of bitcoin to buy up whatever that new thing was.

If you're watching for it.

In reply to @thekkid:dagarten.modular.im
The last point is why I don't do much with it. I don't have confidence I'm on the frontend of the curve and not the backend.

That makes sense.

I feel like I am fairly plugged into news cycles, community drama, and project developments. So I might be more inclined.