Bigger doesn't prove the game is not zero sum. There is no valid underlying use for any cryptocurrency for the average person. If you take away early adopters, crypto-zealots, shills, criminals organizations and suckers, what's left is far from clear. Is cryptocurrency some transformative, post-governmental currency, controlled by the people - or the next speculative de jour - or a scam - with a better marketing strategy?

What seems clear is that when you confound speculative utopian societal changes with the underworld's dream currency, crazy things happen.

> it is objectively not a zero sum game

Right, it’s actually a negative sum game because the network takes resources to secure. Thanks for pointing that out.