Recently, I read two very critical German media pieces on crypto and football. The following is a translated and lightly edited version of the replica I wrote last week. One of the articles read like some of the reports about the Internet in 1999: "all criminals, no substance behind it, better keep your hands off it. Even the most technology-averse observer can no longer deny that the Internet has made it out of the muckraking corner that some media representatives of the time liked to conjur...