Blockchains are just starting. There are major innovations under development right now that will massively reduce the energy consumption, and increase the scalability, of blockchains, like zk-Rollups.

Even if what you are saying is true, that will not solve anything for Bitcoin, which is the majority consumer of electricity for the crypto world

Bitcoin is like the steam engine. It will go away for things which are more efficient.

It wont go away, it will become a protocol only incharge of high value security. All the daily micro transactions will take place in a second layer or in another crypto which can swap back and forth seamlessly.

I wish so.

This is basically a verbatim quote from 2016/2017 when Microsoft, IBM and other tech giants were starting blockchain research divisions, all of which were dissolved by last year lol

13 years is not just starting.

Common, just another 5 years of pump and dumps before Cardano is no longer vaporware and we can all justify its peak market cap being the same as BP at ~95 billion US dollars.

Top coins apart from Bitcoin and Tether are ETH, BNB and Solana and of those only ETH is proof of work and is trying to stop that soon.

The first microprocessors started in the 70s. The internet started in the 80s.

There were barriers to contributing to those efforts which simply don’t exist with this Web3 thing, so this vague implication falls flat if thought about. Orders of magnitude more individuals have the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the advancement of the cryptocurrency space when compared to the early internet, without much (or any) need to wait for hardware innovations or military funding.

What is a good reason that cryptocurrencies have seen practically zero real-world adoption in the same approximate timespan that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, et al managed to integrate deeply into our societies? And of course by adoption I don’t mean HODLing, I mean cryptocurrencies being used as the currencies they are claimed to be.

World wide web which, like cryptocurrencies, runs on the internet in its first 13 years had on it Amazon, Google, Facebook... 13 years seems plenty.

Did it, though ? Isn't WWW from 1989 and Facebook from 2004 or so ?

It was released to public in 1991.