"Even if you win money through dumb luck, you have lost time and energy, which means you have lost."

Winning money while losing time and energy is what happens to most when working a job, should we just give up on working as well then?

The story about the cancerpill also isn't comparable to cryptocurrencies.

"You could make the same argument about my fingernail clippings: they may have no intrinsic value, but they’re in limited supply so let’s use them as the new world currency."

If everybody can agree on this then you have a new currency, no? Isn't that the same as our current currency? We just agree on pieces of paper to represent a monetary value.