Exchange value only matters when there's trade. My view of crypto is "wrong in the right direction" because it currently addresses macroeconomic coordination via mimicry of traditional finance. The technologies it uses to achieve decentralized coordination do matter, though. Automated consensus on a large scale is meaningful. But it needs a post-trade, natural-systems view of the world to really make sense.
Conversely, people in government tend to view crypto folks as senselessly computer-centric and unable to view macroeconomics as the result of human interaction.
There is no such thing as value without exchange. That's a definitional thing. Coins themselves are just numbers.