# Why Bother?

**Published by:** [Hypocrisy in Action](https://paragraph.com/@hypocrisy/)
**Published on:** 2024-04-28
**Categories:** web3, social
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@hypocrisy/why-bother

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"Why bother?" is a question I ask myself often. This fact might come as a surprise to many of the people in my life. I am not particularly lacking in motivation. If anything, I do too much; spread myself too thin with a myriad of interests. I ask myself this question about what I engage with to gauge if it is something worth doing. For new experiences, the answer is often just "you won't know if you like it until you try it." But for larger scale commitments (relationship, jobs, etc), the question becomes a lot more important. This is a question I have been asking about the crypto world for a long time. I was never really sold on the concept of a digital currency. Currency requires consistent value and ease of transfer. Back when I first learned about Bitcoin in 2013, it was both slow and inconsistent, making it anything but a currency. Despite this, I have kept a pulse on the world of web3. The technology is fascinating and excites my inner distributed systems nerd. My skepticism with the vision has shifted with more recent developments. Between proof of stake, L2 networks, and the Greenpilled push to build more equitable systems, I have come to see that blockchains can be a solution to many of the economic problems that face the world today. None of this answers a much more important question for you, as my reader: why bother with me? I am a self professed outsider, a skeptic, and generally the antithesis of the type of thought leader that is popular in this ecosystem. But I would like to believe that these traits are the very thing that make what I have to say worth engaging with. I want to see a world where blockchains run our financial systems. A world where coordination is transparent and power democratized. Most importantly, I understand why the general public hasn't adopted crypto. A statement I have heard often from well educated people is that crypto is a solution that doesn't have a problem. That is a statement that is naive, but at the present moment, is mostly correct. Blockchain technology has been focused on providing resources and tooling for other blockchain users. There hasn't been a push to bridge the digital-physical divide and bring the radical financial democratization of crypto into real world businesses. This topic is what I will write about. What does a solar punk future built on the back of blockchain technology look like and how to go from here to there. Future is coming and we are still early.

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