I stopped reading after « with nary a mainstream use case to show for it other than drugs and ransomware » Wether you like them or not, DEFI, ICOs and NFTs are

I stopped reading after « with nary a mainstream use case to show for it other than drugs and ransomware » Wether you like them or not, DEFI, ICOs and NFTs are all very valid use cases which attracted people with backgrounds different enough that we can call it mainstream. Yes you can do pretty much all of them without blockchain but so can you with drugs and ransomware. I don’t know what is it with crypto that it generates so much extremism in both sides.