> The one interesting thing about all the rehashed boring arguments is that, despite being 13 years old, it's still so, so new that even smart, technically minded people like the HN readership will still bag it for not being whatever they heard it was attempting to be when it started.

That's not really what people are "bagging" it for. Or at least, not why I'm "against" crypto.

> But no, it's worthless, it shouldn't exist, it's not worth any further time or effort or research, fuck it off my fucking planet.

I think the technology is super interesting as a technology (I'm talking of blockchains here). I think there is currently one solid, known use case for that technology - cryptocurrencies. I'm not sure how "beneficial" they are overall, but I'm not so sure how beneficial Facebook is either. They are for sure providing some value to some people.

My big problem is that for the last 8 years, I've been hearing about how the Blockchain technology will solve other problems, revolutionize other fields. And as of now, that just isn't the case. There are no other problems that blockchain solves that can't be solved better with other technologies.

I'm not saying that no further time or effort to research this should be done, not at all. I'm just saying that people claiming there currently are use cases for it are wrong, and pushing back against them.