Potentially our future as well considering the carbon and ecological footprint of crypto, both in terms of energy spent mining, and production of single-purpose hardware that can't really do anything else, rival some medium sized developed countries.
All those GWh wasted on “mining” only got us closer to the edge.
Not like the millions or billions of man hours wasted to make 50-ish removed into defacto-gods.
Don't forget its not just man-hours, but man-lives too
Potentially our future as well considering the carbon and ecological footprint of crypto, both in terms of energy spent mining, and production of single-purpose hardware that can't really do anything else, rival some medium sized developed countries.