Bitcoin is 15 years old.
To put that in perspective:

The web started in 1991. 15 years later, in 2006, we had youtube, twitter, amazon, ebay - the world was unrecognisable.

What have we got in that timeframe from #blockchain? Ashes.

"A thriving market for magic beans doesn't make the magic beanstalk real." - lib.rs

Magic Beans

Beware of empty promises and fraud.

Lib.rs
(I think I first heard this analogy from münecat - love her!)
Before you continue to YouTube

@noboilerplate I was trying too work out why I couldn't see the first post for this, and I realised it was because I have a filter that hides posts mentioning crypto- 🤣

@WolvericCatkin @noboilerplate
Ah, you hate magic beans.

Half the rust economy seems to be working on completely trustworthy virtual beans 🤷

@yacc143 @WolvericCatkin I mentally replace the word "economy" with "rich people's yachts", so, yeah... 🙃

@noboilerplate @yacc143 @WolvericCatkin The lack of traceability is why people keep pushing for the magic beans - the ability to shuffle money around without central bank oversight, to hide wealth and avoid taxation, to fund illegal activities, to channel money into politics and terrorism, and to easily manipulate the trade value of the currency itself.

The idea that it's not any more real than government-issued currency is nothing more than misdirection.