Much as it can be enjoyable to poke fun at the crypto bros — with their silly memes, irritating acronyms, puerile jokes and frankly ridiculous ideas about the world — I have to confess: I don’t believe they’re the main problem. As far as I’m concerned it’s the earnest, strait-laced types who insist that we should all be taking the whole thing terribly seriously who pose the biggest threat to our survival as a rational and prosperous society. Welcome to the plague of what I like to call “sensible crypto”. What I am talking about when I use this oxymoron is the men in suits — and it is most commonly men, though there are women too — who will tell you that sure, the vast majority of cryptoland is a gigantic grift, but that their crypto coin is going to change the way we send money around the world, making the financial system fairer and more inclusive and democratic.
儘管取笑加密貨幣的狂熱粉絲——他們愚蠢的表情包、惱人的縮寫詞、幼稚的笑話和關於世界的明顯荒謬想法——是一件令人愉快的事情，但我必須承認：我不認爲他們是主要問題。在我看來，對我們這個理性繁榮的社會的生存構成最大威脅的，是那些堅持認爲我們所有人都應該極其認真地對待這整件事的鄭重其事、一本正經的人。歡迎來到這場瘟疫，我願稱之爲「理智的加密貨幣」。