Crypto has this speculative, casino-like underbelly to it, but the technology making that possible has some fantastic uses. Bitcoin is slowly but successfully establishing itself as a store of value akin to digital gold. Ethereum is powering an increasing number of decentralized applications. Stablecoins are clearly the first major one, but many mo

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I try to keep a relatively level head about crypto, and at least 90% of it is nonsense right now. Maybe more like 95-99%. 
But there are some real use cases right now that are quite good and provide a legitimate case for the value of blockchain tech.

There isn’t much that blockchains enable that would be impossible to implement in a web2 way. It wouldn’t be trustless and decentralized—but the benefits of decentralization are way too abstract and vague to compel most people.