> None of their claims have materially panned out.
Well, I can send arbitrarily large amounts of money across the planet, to any country with internet access, for tiny sums, safely, irreversibly, to anyone.
Many people have sent many millions to Ukraine, for example. Transnational, permissionless internet money is quite handy.
That wasn't possible before, and that's pretty useful, so I think the basic claim (that cryptocurrency is useful) is holding up fine.
Well, I can send arbitrarily large amounts of money across the planet, to any country with internet access, for tiny sums, safely, irreversibly, to anyone.
Many people have sent many millions to Ukraine, for example. Transnational, permissionless internet money is quite handy.
That wasn't possible before, and that's pretty useful, so I think the basic claim (that cryptocurrency is useful) is holding up fine.