Crypto’s use-cases, experiments, and narrative shifts

In this thought piece, Vitalik challenges the question of whether decentralized decision making is effective by looking at three scenarios in which it is important and needed:

About his approach to crypto Got into crypto when he understood that it is an opportunity to define values numerically, to express them in a new medium, to build systems that respond to an input and desired output beyond just the growth rate or financial take of a system.

So crypto is a new way of organizing humans along with a new computing platform that has money baked into it.