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> unwilling to exert a bare minimum level of effort to research other use cases?

What I'm unwilling to do is wade through the mountains of scams and get-rich-quick schemes to find novel applications of a distributed ledger. Games? Seriously? Show me a game that isn't just a vehicle for boosting the trade volume of some shitcoin.

It's all dystopian tech bro capitalism to me.

> There was recently a high-profile crowdfunded attempt to buy an artifact at auction. Feel free to be skeptical of all of these, but

Yeah, that one where half the people who want a refund will lose a significant chunk, if not all, of their donation in fees. I find it absolutely laughable that with all of the fancy "smart contract" tech out there someone couldn't figure how to hold these donations in cryptographic escrow and return them without a huge penalty if the transaction were to fall through. It's hard to feel bad for those who put money in. It should all be automated and foolproof, and I thought that was the point.