This is the thing that has always bugged me about cryptocurrency - people are only passionate about it because they want to make more traditional currency with it. Then they adopt this "decentralized" rhetoric. It's always felt hollow. If owning/trading bitcoin became a crime, it'd be done.

Ever since Dogecoin had a moment, there's now a million coins trying to engineer their own "moonshot".

This is on top of the security issues and of course the energy issues. Cryptocurrency is garbage.