from Hacker News

The Way the Senate Melted Down over Crypto Is Revealing

by dolphenstein on 8/15/21, 1:06 AM with 19 comments

• by Waterluvian on 8/15/21, 2:01 AM

  > The technology is evolving to be much more than a digital currency, and Silicon Valley sees it as the digital infrastructure atop which the next internet will be built.

  What does this even mean? NFTs? Endless “coins”? I thought it was pretty much conclusively demonstrated that crypto is pretty much useless for anything other than speculation.

  Anyone have a single concrete example of crypto being used in a clearly useful, reliable, durable way?

• by Shadonototro on 8/15/21, 2:02 AM

  lot of insider trading, as usual