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Although I got out of crypto years ago (I regret that some days--only the days when I think about it!), I understand the basic arguments, and I basically get it. What I don't get at all is how we go from here to there. I mean, how do we go from a situation where a few tens of thousands of people hold all the "currency" to a situation in which a mom in Arkansas is benefitting from Web3, when that more or less depends upon wide adoption of one or more coins. Right now, Heinz can do ad buys on FB that are pretty damn microtargeted, and all indications are that they sort of work ok, but not as well as you'd think they would. So I'm pretty sure I understand the nature of trustless interactions, but I haven't been able to envision how the wealth trickles out in a way that makes the schema implementable. Most of the arguments I've seen about crypto look more like underpants gnomes than a playbook.