@atomicpoet
I've been thinking about punchy counter-arguments to crypto stuff, this is what I came up with so far:

#1 The people who added "mistrust authorities, promote decentralization" to the hacker ethic were talking about having the hardware they needed in their basements, not in shady server centers in Kazakhstan.

#2 Blockchain is just a new way of doing centralized databases. Just replace <fancy new chain> with "SAP" in your head, and see if it still sounds appealing.