Of all the scams in Web3 (and there's quit a few) this is not one.
It’s the same technology as PGP signers use in their email for proving which relies on the impossibility of collisions.
You thought you had a rebuttal and walked right into why its working
Those users can learn not to get taken advantage of
Spoken like a true scammer. It is pretty obvious to anyone who is even vaguely aware of phone scams that this will never be enough.
Here, we are acknowledging thats there are humans that commit malicious actions and they shouldn’t do that, and also acknowledge that there are programs that exist in perpetuity to do this which means there is no malicious human to educate, and requires (not just advises) the potential and actual victims to have agency themselves and their victim status is prevented by actually following the best practices that all predate the malicious actors to begin with.
Blockchains, distributed ledgers, allow for us to reevaluate what governance is and entails. It is expected that some processes of existing governments because redundant, and that there is some kind of governance occurring to coordinate behavior.
So here we are actually agreeing, except on where the best practices come from, which would be cypherpunk mailing lists, old bitcoin wikis, and protocol specification drafts and ratifications.
What's happened is that a bunch of people who have zero understanding about what crypto is or how it works have been able to buy an asset because a bunch of people using pre-existing technological and legal frameworks created platforms for them to do so.
The "accelerated saturation" you are referring to relies on the very types of trust and authority that the article claims to obviate the need for.
in both there are opportunities for people with zero understanding to use a platform created by someone else. crypto asset sector has been more successful.