[rchaud]

> HN wrongly thinks of crypto as a financial system (which it can do, for good and bad reasons thanks to its permissionlessness),

That's how it's implemented in real life, so that's what people's takeaway is going to be. What was the last dApp anybody used that wasn't a pay-to-play game, or crypto marketplace?

You may as well say communism is theoretically sound, but people will continue to get hung up on the fact that's it's real-world implementations have always led to despotic leadership.