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I think it's implied: don't pursue cryptocurrency or the blockchain where traditional methods work just fine.

The problem right now is that there's a peverse incentive for entrepreneurs to jump on the crypto/NFT bandwagon because a bunch of VCs are desperate to fund those sorts of companies. Nobody in that space is incentivised to point out that the emperor has no clothes.

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You cannot criticize a religion without upsetting all of the followers. Crypto has become a religion.

There's a lot of people who have their money tied up in the crypto space. If it takes off, they get rich without doing anything. If it crashes, they become poor. So they have a huge incentive to push crypto even if it's not actually good for anyone but themselves.

s/crypto/neg eps, never made a profit publicly listed, need a bailout every 10 years, stocks/g

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