Where are all the crypto use cases? | Evan Conrad

In other words, crypto's use case is the one that it claims: decentralization. It's use case is to cut out middlemen, break up monopolies, and fight aggregators. It's certainly not the case that crypto is entirely useless.It may still be the case that crypto is "more bad than good", but the claim "after 13 years, there are still no use cases for cr... See more

We can pump out a number of other popular use cases, and for each one, I'll let you move the goal post to not include that particular project.

• Filecoin - A commodity market for storage that's currently 0.0011% the cost of S3.

Second, there are use cases for "crypto". Most notably: money. Money that's not issued by a central government is a perfectly reasonable use case. Crypto is successful at being money. You may think decentralized money is bad or not useful to you in particular, but if you can't accept money as a use case, then that's a hint that this claim may be un... See more