As I said, I see cryptocurrency as a very complex technology that requires a bordering-on-academic understanding of privacy, autonomy, sovereignty, macroeconomics, the shortcomings of FIAT currency, centralized banking, the federal reserve, fractional reserve banking, asymmetric cryptography, computer security, and a litany of other topics to fully appreciate and realize the benefits offered by Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, etc.

I understand it probably comes off a little misanthropic, but as I also said, I suspect (many? most? majority? plurality?) of the people involved in crypto really don't even care about any of that, let alone understand it. The unstated corollary to this is that I would presume the people who aren't involved in crypto, on average, understand and appreciate all of these things even less.

I understand that a lot of those 5 billion users weren't born with the privileges I was - I basically rolled all d20's for my stats by being born into one of the wealthiest and highest income countries in the world to a pair of responsible middle class parents and getting both the genes and parenting that I got, in an economic environment where I got to be exposed to having a home computers from the age of about 4, got lucky enough to be born into the highest income county of my state with a fantastic charter school that offered me a better early education than I deserved, all through no virtue of my own, and I think that opened life path doors for me that simply aren't open to an awful lot of people.

Even after all of that, to have the personality type that allows one to be extremely interested in what some would call "esoteric" topics like cryptography, monetary sovereignty, etc, as opposed to someone who just listens to whatever the popular music is, watches whatever the popular TV show is, and is glued to tiktok or Instagram 24/7 is far from guaranteed.

I think to be deeply interested in cryptocurrency for what I subjectively call "the right reasons" is in many ways to be an exception to the norm, both economically and culturally, compared to the user base of "all internet users".

In their defense, I wouldn't recognize any of the top players of the MLB, NBA, NHL, whatever the American football one is, whatever the big European football one is, any of the kardashians, virtually any actor or actress, or musicians, or other cultural figures if I was standing next to them in line at Microcenter - I think it's mostly a question of different interests being held by different people, and "the technical, economic, political, and philosophical aspects of electronic peer-to-peer distributed ledgers" is probably just not a very popular interest.

Again, sorry if any of that comes off as misanthropic, that's not my intention - I am trying to be completely civil.