seems like crypto references in mainstream movies or TV are almost uniformly negative

i think there is an opportunity for a mainstream movie or show that appeals to crypto holders in the broadest sense

not a documentary, a really entertaining movie or TV show that just happens to be very pro crypto

i feel like crypto's mainstream perception is gonna take a while to shift. right now there's a huge gap between how farcaster users see crypto versus how regular people do. 

for most people, crypto has been this breeding ground for massive scams where influencers and politicians launch tokens that end up burning everyone who buys in. 

that perception isn't changing until we either get proper regulations, scammers have some consequences or the inner circle actually starts calling out these projects and do not platform them.

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and i dont think that perception can be washed by some media content.

since i have been watching these steamers bash crypto, i have been thinking about this topic passively for almost a year now. 

most of them say, the are very optimistic about the tech, but the ecosystem is giving scams more than anything.

which from their pov i can understand.

totally agree, and i think you're spot on about nfts poisoning the well.

the perception problem is also skewed by who's actually vocal. 

also since scams often involved big personalities, and there's a whole drama content ecosystem that thrives on this stuff, so scams get amplified.

on the other hand, most crypto focused content creators creates a hype beast crypto bro vibe, which is now hard to be taken seriously
and which is super opposite of the vibe in farcaster community.

from what i consume, there's tons of crypto bashing from streamers and youtubers, and coffeezilla has basically become their go-to source for crypto scam coverage. 

i think that's what ends up shaping most people's perception of the space and gets trended upwards to the mainstream medis

I don’t know if this is the full picture

For everyone who lost money on Hawk Tuah or whatever, there are orders of magnitude more who have just held Bitcoin and made money

I feel like you have to be pretty into crypto to lose money on scams, and not that many people are that deep

In anything, I would say NFTs left a bad taste as they became maybe roughly Bitcoin level culturally relevant last cycle and as far as mainstream is concerned they died and remain dead, but we’ll see