[koonsolo]

You are on a forum that is literally owned by an investment firm. Do you think they invest because of the good of their hearts, or as some kind of charity, or because of "the technology"?

Investments happen because people want to make money, end of story. Not to help other people, because that is called charity.

BUT, that doesn't mean that investing is all about scamming people. It is clear at this point that the best investments are the ones that provide actual value to a lot of people.

To conclude: most things are about money, but that doesn't invalidate the value behind it.

And just like the OP, I agree that on HN these discussions always end up nowhere.

"It's all about money, not technology", and when you talk about technology: "It's technology looking for a problem", and then you talk about use-cases: "A centralized system is more efficient".

[lottin]

What is new, though, with web3, is that now they're trying to turn every single interaction that you have on-line into an economic transaction.