Complex sounding technical mumbo-jumbo delivered with supreme confidence and seeming internal consistency is how you convince the plebs to invest their life savings in various forms of crypto.

0.1% understand the original underlying technology 0.9% understands the applications possible to be built on top of it 99% are following the 1% and writing governmental and financial policy, and voting with their wallets.

I wish I could say we will look back and shake our heads at it like we do today at Tulip Mania, but I suspect we're watching the birth and childhood of a new religion. Crypto isn't going anywhere for the rest of our lives, and just as we have to keep vigilantly fighting against Scientology permeating tax policy, or religion in general always attempting to undermine secular society, Crypto will continue to be a thorn in society for a long time.