[andrewxhill]

The video is definitely not any kind of journalistic take-down. Here's a quote to frame the creator's view of anyone working on crypto.

I love this paragraph because it outlines just how disconnected from reality people actually building cryptocurrencies really are. They don't understand _anything_ about the ecosystems they're trying to disrupt. They only know that these are things that can be conceptualized as valuable and assume that because they understand one very complicated thing -- programming with cryptography -- that all other complicated things must be lesser in complexity and naturally lower in the hierarchy of reality. Nails easily driven by the hammer that they have created.

There is a lot of garbage in crypto to be sure. But what a dead-end POV.

[miracle2k]

The arrogance of Dan in this video is only exceeded by the number of provably incorrect claims. It's up to par with the crypto-critical community, which has painted itself into a corner where only the most outrageous claims about the evils of the feared dystopian future suffice.

A deep dive into the scammy world of those NFT Discord groups is a fantastic idea, it's a shame what became of the video.

[eropple]

Shame that what became of it? That he underlined that most of the NFT craze is illusory wash trading intended to feed on the anxieties of what is hard to describe as anything other than "the precariat"?

What do you object to? What "provably incorrect claims" did he roll out? Back this up, yeah?

[muglug]

Do you have anything in the way of a rebuttal to the hundreds of factual claims in the video?

[dmitriid]

In true crypto fashion the answer to this is probably "just go to crypto Twitter and hundreds of Discord channels, and see for yourself"

[andrewxhill]

You know that feeling when you see comment threads online and you are just like... _it's not worth it_. I think many of the good/honest/intellectually curious people inside crypto are ghosting through HN these days with that feeling. So it's mostly become void of any interesting discussions on the topic.

If you are genuinely interested, let's narrow it down. Which of his claims are the strongest/most distressing to you? Maybe some of those folks will stop ghosting and get into real conversation.