>>121 (OP)
Bro, it's not that deep. The appeal is the idea of getting something for nothing. Crypto bros think they're getting something for nothing. Crypto shills want to milk the crypto bros for every penny they can (MUH NEW SHITCOIN IS GOING TO THA MOON BUY BUY BUY NOW NOW NOW DON'T MISS OUT) and then rugpull them. It's fake and gay, just like NFTs, for all the exact same reasons.
>but muh shitcoins are doing so awesome this month!
Yeah, some of the people who buy into other ponzi schemes make money for a while and a few even manage to sell and get out of it with a profit before everyone else gets rugpulled. It's unusual, though. Almost everyone who puts in money loses everything.
>but muh economy of the future!
Econ 101 time. A government issued currency may represent precious metal, or it may represent a portion of the nation's economic productivity. It can be used freely for commerce and to store wealth, so long as the government issuing it isn't Zimbabwe.
On the other hand, when you pick up crypto, turn it over, and look at the underside, there's nothing there. There's nothing at all.
>no see acktchewally we are calculating cryptographic hashes that we can barter to one another and trade for shitcoins that can be bartered for more precalculated cryptographic hashes and buy more in hopes of selling them later at a profit