Top Comments Collection: What unpopular crypto opinions do you have?
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Top Comments Collection: What unpopular crypto opinions do you have?
We (crypto) won't change the world.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsWritten by TechFlow
On July 8, Jason Choi, founder of Blockcrunch, launched a Twitter poll asking, "What unpopular crypto opinions do you have?" By July 13, the survey had received approximately 4.4 million views.
Among them were some interesting perspectives and insights.
"GameFi is a false premise," "There won't be new highs after the halving; ETH will surpass BTC and outperform BTC significantly over the next decade," "Most applications don’t need tokens"...
Stripping away boring ads and marketing, TechFlow compiles several of these viewpoints to see whether these unpopular "intellectual blades" might resonate with you.
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Gab Yang, Arccommunity
We (crypto) won't change the world.
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Westie and Hemic, founders of SODIUM
Product-market fit (PMF) comes before decentralization. PMF is far more important than any aspect of decentralization. All modular tech stacks are focused on the exact same thing—so as long as you achieve PMF, it doesn’t matter where you build.
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Jordan, founder of SojuDAO
We need more applications and less infrastructure. Current infrastructure can already support new consumer apps, but Web3 isn't building applications that attract newcomers. Infrastructure is severely overvalued relative to applications—but most VCs love infrastructure.
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Craig Anthony
Zero-knowledge proofs are a technology beyond blockchain.
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Dpg
We’re deluding ourselves. The number of people in this space is continuously shrinking. Active wallet users are declining. The ecosystem is becoming increasingly isolated—yet we believe mass adoption is just around the corner.
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ZachXBT, renowned on-chain investigator
For 99% of people, it's not worth risking capital in DeFi.
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0xSal
A project’s success does not depend on prestigious investors or the amount of funds raised. In fact, raising less money allows a project to profit from itself.
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Ryan Berckmans ryanb
Continuously wasting billions of dollars on Bitcoin mining instead of building industry infrastructure harms this sector more than most insiders realize. At today’s prices, daily BTC mining costs equal the funding of 20 startup seed rounds.
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Pickle
By the peak of the bull market, ETH will outperform all L2 tokens.
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Brent Xu, co-founder of Umee
Cryptocurrency and DeFi will eventually move toward semi-regulation.
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Mr F, founder of BitGlyphs
Bitcoin doesn’t need to exist anymore. It’s slower, more expensive, far less practical than Ethereum, and consumes massive amounts of energy. PoW and Bitcoin got us here—that’s incredible—but they need to disappear.
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Zaheer, Split Capital
Most ideals of cryptocurrency won’t be realized—but that doesn’t mean failure.
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TheModestThief
GameFi is a false premise.
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Blerk
There will be no new highs after the halving. ETH will surpass BTC and outperform BTC significantly over the next decade.
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AutisticJS
Only BTC and ETH will survive long-term: BTC as a commodity (digital gold); Ethereum as a gambling chain—where all Ponzi schemes thrive and die.
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Richard Chen, partner at 1confirmation
In six years, the total market cap of NFTs will exceed that of all cryptocurrencies except BTC, ETH, and stablecoins.
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lightspeed mert, CEO of Helius
Solana will become the most widely used chain within five years.
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Devansh Mehta
The next billion crypto users won’t come from games, but from reliable oracles bringing real-world data on-chain.
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CL, partner at eGirl Capital
VR will become the singularity that eliminates human social distance. Digital currencies will become the foundational medium of exchange in this new reality. Industries whose entire purpose is bridging distances (like automobiles and airlines) will face bankruptcy. This may take 20–30 years.
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Martin Krung
Tokenization helps people make money, but kills most projects because incentives vanish.
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kevinjlu, co-founder of Scalene
In the Web3 world, attention constantly shifts to new, exciting developments. However, it's crucial to remember that the key to building a successful and sustainable industry lies in prioritizing its people and talent.
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Lex Moskovski
Mainstream adoption is a mistake. We don’t need enough normalization to withstand increasing regulatory scrutiny. Cryptocurrency should remain an elite club open to anyone willing to put in the effort—just like the internet.
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viksit, Solarplex
Blockchains will fade from collective consciousness and become another foundational layer that people don’t even notice.
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jaimin, founder of Caddi
In the next five years, most U.S. tokens will be deemed securities. In the next thirty years, most securities will become tokens.
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Raman Sha, builder of Crypto Jobs List
People spend 90% of their energy building obscure projects (NFTs, DeFi, etc.), and less than 10% on mass adoption and basic payments.
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Claire Kart, VP of Marketing at Mina Foundation
Communities aren’t built by giving away money.
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michaellwy, contributor to Blockcrunch
Account abstraction (4337) is not a magic bullet for "onboarding the next billion users."
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Capitulation
Massive financial gains are required to attract new users.
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Coin Bureau, well-known crypto KOL
If crypto continues relying on centralized stablecoins, it will ultimately become a worse version of the existing financial system rather than a true alternative.
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boost, Collaboration Engineer at NEAR Foundation
Crypto is only suitable for niche audiences, not mainstream adoption.
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Shawn, Artichoke Capital
Most applications don’t need tokens.
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Parv, founder of Estate Protocol
Greater decentralization, or merely re-implementing the same thing differently, won’t lead to mass adoption. The masses will only join when we improve user experience on things they actually care about.
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Brendan, co-founder of Dharma
Crypto adoption won’t follow the typical technology adoption curve and will be much slower than most hope or believe. This is because crypto represents more of a cultural shift than a technological one—and cultural shifts depend more on generational replacement than changes in mindset.
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Ouriel, CEO of Zengo
DeFi is not decentralized. Hardware wallets are not secure solutions for storing crypto. Most Layer 2s are useless.
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cc (e/acc)
VCs are largely incompatible with the ideals crypto claims to uphold and are not a good public financing mechanism.
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Bisol, founder of Mycryptopedia
Fiat is a good thing—it better stimulates economic and technological growth. Cryptocurrencies with fixed supplies will never be viable candidates to replace traditional monetary systems.
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