The article is so long I couldn’t finish it all but here is the main highlights I got:

1. Crypto remove the need for a intermediate entity which is beneficial to drug sellers (his words not mine)
2. Crypto waste a lot of energy to do transaction validation ( I agree but he completely skipped/ignore proof of stake crypto currencies)
3. Lot of scams took advantage of crypt (I agree)
4. some financial institution made use of crypto to bypass laws that protect customers from frauds (sure but that just means laws should be updated to cover crypto not “burn” it).

I think crypto has issues that need fixing but I also think the article is very biased and attempting to make it look like crypto is strictly for criminals and drug dealers and scammers with otherwise no advantage.

the article is from 2022. also, prof. weaver is fun to listen to, although a bit grating at times; check out his appearance on “factually”

Don’t worry, with the ever worsening economic crisis the world seems to be ignoring and letting America make worse, it will die in a fire

As usual I regret reading the comments on hacker news