> I find it interesting that the standard it's held to is much higher than that for existing 'finance'

It isn't though. It's has all the worst aspects of Wall Street, more wolves and a few unique problems, without the redeeming feature of it facilitating massive amounts of real world activity, and you'll still find more people on here defending even crypto's most blatant scams than you'll find arguing that securitising subprime mortgages is the future of homebuying but just had a few teething problems.

"finance is corrupt" doesn't work in favor of crypto because insofar as crypto addresses the issue, it only allows finance to be even _more_ corrupt

I genuinely think cryptocurrency makes transparent what 'finance' (and the powers attached to it) would prefer remain opaque.

The only thing that will be transparent with zero knowledge blockchains are the buggy contracts