What would you say to a person that thinks that crypto products (stuff built on the networks themselves) are solutions seeking a problem?

I had an incredibly spirited discussion with a non crypto friend of mine and was low key struggling to defend crypto enabled products. Help?

experience researcher & treasure hunter /openux || /manansh

talk about enterprise... jk

don't have a great answer but I think this clip from 1995 is worth looking back on (start from 3:08)

https://youtu.be/fs-YpQj88ew?t=188

I was going to bring it up. But they didn’t really care about all that.

I was talking to a UX friend and they were walking through all the systemic problems they saw.

Stuff like how blockspace is a privilege to the people who can pay, it’s plutocratic, not usable, etc…