[semiquaver]

Thanks very much for the substantive response with citations.

My use of “fad” was primarily referring to the author’s reference to “crypto”, unfortunately these days more often short for “cryptocurrency” than “cryptography”. In context that is very clearly the case here:

> Blockchains are the right way for software to eat money

I think the link between cryptography and ML is fascinating, but cryptocurrency is absolutely a faddish cesspool of speculation and fraud.