In 17 years, crypto has not demonstrated scalable real utility across a wide variety of domains. Real-world use cases remain extremely isolated and very few in number, and what appeared in 2017-2020 to be an explosion of utility has proven to be a massive fizzle. An industry centralized in the hands of a few major entities, illiquid, and excessively manipulated, is nothing but a perpetual scam that sells unattainable dreams for exorbitant sums of money. The crypto industry is a big load of bullshit, but the underlying technological layer does exist. By comparison, we see the AI industry astoni