{"id":138743,"date":"2026-02-28T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=138743"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:30:57","slug":"why-crypto-is-not-pointless-a-third-worlders-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=138743","title":{"rendered":"Why Crypto Is Not Pointless: A Third Worlder\u2019s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While high-and-mighty economists can claim that crypto and the tech behind it are useless and pointless, the reality is that the true value of crypto lies in its enabling forces rather than in its \u201cNumber Go Up\u201d power. Not Pointless: Crypto Has an Enabling Power \u2013 but You Must Need It A recent piece by [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While high-and-mighty economists can claim that crypto and the tech behind it are useless and pointless, the reality is that the true value of crypto lies in its enabling forces rather than in its \u201cNumber Go Up\u201d power. Not Pointless: Crypto Has an Enabling Power \u2013 but You Must Need It A recent piece by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":138744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}