> This is the core tenet that these skeptics get lost with - the premise that there is no real central value to blockchain technology. It is a lost and shallow view made by people who have chosen not to engage or understand what they espouse on. Maybe this person just has too much to lose from change to the status quo, or they choose not to educate themselves (try it) - neither is really valid response if you want to write coherently about something.

The claim you are referring to here doesn't say that the technology is valueless. It says that the individual assets - the NFTs, the Bitcoins - are valueless.

This is a meaningful distinction, because the premise that a global decentralized unit of exchange is valuable doesn't connect at all with what value the individual coins in that exchange system should have.