First, regarding unhealthy obsession I was referring to this Stephen Diehl character. Everyone's free to dislike or hate crypto, but most ordinary people would express that opinion and carry on. That's quite different from making it your life mission and devote all your energy to it. I find that obsessive and suspicious. Like a crusade.

As for this community, I too find it disappointing how it engages with the crypto topic. I understand that crypto gives plenty of reasons for skepticism. I personally share the opinion that > 90% of it is garbage without utility.

And yet still I think there's room to intellectually engage with the good parts. Even parts that are good "in theory" at this point. Even more so when it's so common to bash "web2" tech monopolies.

I do get it though. Crypto is huge, complex and fast-moving. To get a deep and nuanced understanding of it means investing a huge amount of time without a tangible reward. Hence, people resort to simplistic binary conclusions. It's terrible or the future, there's no middle ground.

It's even worse when a topic gets politicized and becomes part of the culture war. A lot of brands are looking to experiment with crypto but are walking on egg shells or have to retract plans as to not offend the Twitter mob.

Is Elon Musk a Disney-style billionaire villain or our savior? It can be only one of those two options, such is the way of the world right now.