> The only reason I know anything about crypto is I assumed I was wrong about it and read a bunch.

You know what is so grating about this conversation?

Every comment you wrote shows your knowledge is incomplete and based on only what you heard/read, and yet you talk like you know all the theory and therefore you can prove how it doesn't work in practice. When presented with new information that shows how you are wrong, you double down on your theoretical background instead of looking at what people empirically achieved.

You end up sounding like someone who studied a bit of aerodynamics and then goes to believe they can teach birds how to fly. Or worse, you see a beetle flying in your face and start claiming "this is physically impossible, it's not real!"

Please, don't be those people who can not do anything useful with their life and end up just shitting or doubting on the works of others.