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Exactly, there may be non-pyramid scheme money in crypto but so far there is no evidence for it. Look at the daily average users for Dapps here:https://www.stateofthedapps.com/rankings

They are absurdly low. Like less than 100 users a day for anything that isn’t a exchange.

Many of these dapps have market caps in the hundreds of millions with a few dozen users per day.

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The failure rate for cryptocurrency experiments will be high, but I’m glad to see people trying. We’ll collectively learn from the efforts. Whatever the number of frauds doesn’t detract from the set of smart guys who are likely inventing something significant.

EDIT: I should have said "may be inventing". It's my opinion of a >50% chance that Vitalik's work will lead to something significant, for example. Some people will disagree and that's ok too.

Why do you feel that it is "likely"?

The idea is that if there's 99 shots on goal, one's gonna be a lucky shot and score. Nevermind the problem being the ball is a cube, unfit for the game...

Not the person asked, but think about what cryptos fundamentally are - decentralized trust among anybody. If it doesn't strike you as how tremendous a tool that is, consider that many things, before the clever applications are developed, sound rather less than inspiring. The internet, at its most fundamental level, is nothing but the ability to send a signal representing a 1 or a 0 to another individual connected to 'the' network. That such a thing would end up completely reshaping not only the world but every aspect of our everyday lives is something that would have seemed rather hyperbolic at one time.

DAU tracking #'s are based on on-chain activities. We don't know daily active user #s for activities such as visiting the crypto kittie site and looking at different kitties.

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