Much as it can be enjoyable to poke fun at the crypto bros — with their silly memes, irritating acronyms, puerile jokes and frankly ridiculous ideas about the world — I have to confess: I don’t believe they’re the main problem. As far as I’m concerned it’s the earnest, strait-laced types who insist that we should all be taking the whole thing terribly seriously who pose the biggest threat to our survival as a rational and prosperous society. Welcome to the plague of what I like to call “sensible crypto”. What I am talking about when I use this oxymoron is the men in suits — and it is most commonly men, though there are women too — who will tell you that sure, the vast majority of cryptoland is a gigantic grift, but that their crypto coin is going to change the way we send money around the world, making the financial system fairer and more inclusive and democratic.
尽管取笑加密货币的狂热粉丝——他们愚蠢的表情包、恼人的缩写词、幼稚的笑话和关于世界的明显荒谬想法——是一件令人愉快的事情，但我必须承认：我不认为他们是主要问题。在我看来，对我们这个理性繁荣的社会的生存构成最大威胁的，是那些坚持认为我们所有人都应该极其认真地对待这整件事的郑重其事、一本正经的人。欢迎来到这场瘟疫，我愿称之为“理智的加密货币”。