> I think the blockchain is super interesting and will lead to many useful implementations. But advocates sure like to get all whacky over it.
The Internet and World Wide Web has been filled with spam and junk since the beginning. It even had its naysayers, like this one: https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-b...
> "What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading."
Sounds a lot like the large number of useless blockchain-based projects these days. The web also had a fundraising bubble too, a few years after it came about.