[te_chris]

Look at NFTs. The empowerment pricnciples are being actively killed by millions of VC dollars. Opensea are nominally recording transactions on a blockchain - but none of the actual meat. Everything 'real' lives inside their centralised system.

[kylebenzle]

A LOT of people are doing it wrong but there are still good projects out there. The two that come to mind are Monero and Bitcoin Cash. Both still work as designed and have low fees and/or instant and/or anonymous transactions.