The same question remains, has crypto really provided 500 billion(now 300 billion) worth of value to the world?

I don't think so. I look at my feeds and, again, I find myself upvoting not because I think the content is great, but because the dollar value vs # of upvotes is optimal. And I still don't get any curation rewards for some reason but whatever.

After I muted all the obvious zerohedge shills and cops, there isn't anybody even trying to talk about anything interesting on here and the crypto speculation has now been proven 90% wrong/stupid/hype.

The 70k or so words I've written haven't garnered a single intelligent response and the only whale upvotes were from disinfo agents who turned their back on me the second I questioned their specific narratives.

@familyprotection is a scam, which is creepy af btw, and there is no chance of haejin et all being stopped from their abuse of edge case rules, so I see little reason to contribute to a platform that does nothing for me as a writer and is just as ineffective at connecting me with other humans as reddit and twitter are. As in, I feel a game afoot, like something is rigged here. Like how is it that I wrote so much heavy stuff with archived evidence links and not a single interaction I have made in hindsight looks either real or valuable.

btc went to 11k because someone bought 400million, then went to 8k when that person and friends decided they wanted to play speculation min/max games daytrading. Further, I wonder if anything about bitcoin is really anonymous as the ledger is public and if you didn't mine the coin yourself in some kindof deepweb blacksite, they are going to find you.

Frankly it all looks like a trap in every way. Yet another iteration of the web that offers nothing but a panopticon and ways for the same rich people to exploit the system. So disgusting.