Jack and the Beanstalk is such a well-known story that as long as crypto has existed, there will have been people who dismissed it as magic beans.

Was it because you got wiped out in the dot-com crash? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com

"magic beans" is also a name for part of cats feet

e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/ohb0xp/magic_beans_and...