Look, I get why people see potential in crypto. The idea of decentralized finance sounds good on paper, like a beautiful skyscraper blueprint. But here's the thing — the actual building is built on a swamp. When you zoom out and map the whole landscape, you see a system designed to extract value from latecomers. Most NFTs are just links to JPEGs on broken servers. Most crypto projects have no real revenue, no product-market fit. They're propped up by hype and the hope that someone else will pay more. That's not a market, that's a shell game. The numbers back this up. Over 95% of NFTs are now worthless. Bitcoin's price swings are driven by whales and exchanges, not organic adoption. And every major crash exposes the same pattern — insiders cash out while retail holds the bag. I want to believe in the vision, I really do. But when you look at the data, it's hard to see this as anything other than a giant, well-marketed scam.

Here's a stat for you: the same year you mentioned, over $3.8 billion was stolen in crypto hacks and scams. That's almost double the savings you're talking about. So the math doesn't balance out. I see your point about remittances, and it's a good one. It's like finding a solid concrete floor in a house that's otherwise built with cardboard walls. But you're drawing a map where one narrow path leads somewhere useful and pretending the whole territory is safe. It's not. You compare crypto to the internet, but that's a false map. The internet had clear utility from day one — email, information sharing, commerce. Crypto's main use case after fifteen years is still speculation and gambling. Even the NFT market you're defending has cratered by over 90% in trading volume since 2021. Look, I'm not saying every single project is fraud. But when the core landscape is designed so insiders always win and outsiders almost always lose, you've built a scam-shaped building.

Alright, picture this: you're in a casino, and they show you a live feed of someone winning big on a slot machine. That's the remittance example. It's real, but it's the exception designed to keep you playing. The rest of the casino floor is rigged so the house always wins. You say crypto's transparency is a feature. I say it's a magnifying glass on a messy crime scene. You can see the theft happening in real time, but you can't stop it. That's not a win for the system. And the internet comparison? Come on. The internet's failures led to Amazon and Google. Crypto's failures lead to more speculative tokens and rug pulls. The landscape hasn't evolved—it's just shifted the deck chairs on the Titanic. The core utility is still "buy this thing, hope it goes up." That's not an industry, it's a gamble with a fancy interface.