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Doubtful, still mostly a hammer looking for nails and when the prices come back, so will the scum. There are core issues that do not jive with societal expectations and norms. This gives time for others, outside of crypto, to adopt the good parts of Blockchain experiments without the crypto part. This is what I am hopeful for

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Crypto prices haven't crashed enough to really discourage people.

For instance those bored apes are trading at about the same in ETH that they were trading at in April. Now ETH is down significantly since then, but you're not going to see tax loss harvesting until other assets are doing well and people have capital gains to write off.

I think it (price deflation) has definitely discouraged many.

But back to my point, we only ever seem to talk about crypto from "how much is it worth compared to a dollar?" When did the utility of an alternate currency take the backseat, and how long must it stay there? (he asked rhetorically)...

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