I have no qualms with AI. There are some neat applications with it. And prime numbers... lolwut? Prime95 is a fun stress test, but I don't see how it improves my day to day life.

I feel this is whataboutism.

EDIT: I should note that I should have worded my statement to say that the Web is infinitely useful as a tool in addition to being here to stay. I don't necessarily see Bitcoin going away any time soon, if ever. However, its utility is much lower on the totem pole, if not non-existent, depending on who you are. To each their own though. Some folks like living life on the edge.

I’m challenging the notion that 2 decades is a meaningful timescale to evaluate the value of an idea.

Prime numbers are the reason you can use the web securely over WiFi. It took 2,500 years for that to happen.

I'm pretty sure I would have figured the usefulness out a long time ago if it truly was going to make a difference. Two decades is plenty of time.

On your comment on how prime numbers helped with WiFi. I say "cool... but I don't have to directly think about it and everything around it just works since it's transparent to me."

Again, some folks might value this for their own reasons, and that is their business. It's not my right or interest to tell people how to spend their money. But the downsides and the externalities of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency make it not worth it for me. I don't want to be my own bank. I want people smarter than me to manage it on my behalf.