I think regardless of which 'side' is correct, it's really interesting that as a crypto enthusiast I completely and utterly disagree with your POV.

I (and many other socialist libertarians) are interested in privacy/decentralization, and see crypto, as a permissionless and decentralized system, itself as the last vestige of the free and open web. There's a very strong and thriving open source community/ethos in crypto, it's kinda built in by design.

I don't really care about the price of my tokens (I only have ETH and some ENS I got airdropped), as they have intrinsic value to me. Of course it would be nice to be rewarded for being early in a new tech, but I have no aspirations of being a crypto millionaire or making a bunch of money, I just think the tech is really cool.

I wonder where the divide comes from?

First of all wow, comparing crypto fans to nazis, that's quite a stretch!

Second of all, the crypto 'community' is not one giant community with homogeneous ideas, there are many who scoff at being bankrolled by big business and venture capitalists. I can't imagine anything less 'big business capitalism' than a system where no one entity has any control, and where users have the ability to democratically control the services/protocols they use.

There's no requirement to participate in 500000% APY LP farms or buying a bunch of meme coins and shilling VC funded ponzi schemes to be a fan of crypto. Critique that BS all you want but it's not everything.

I would consider myself a socialist libertarian and a fan of crypto. The best part of being free and open source is that we can always come along and make better software and better ways of organizing ourselves. Personally I see DAOs and zero-knowledge proofs as the most important uses so far, I think there's a lot of really cool potential there for organizing systems in ways that weren't possible before.

> I couldn't explain anything currently called Web 3.0 to my non-computer-technical but generally-computing-savvy father, let alone the general public

Maybe you don't understand it well enough? I've successfully explained crypto/web3 to my otherwise "mostly tech-illiterate, has his iPhone font at 200% with all default customization, doesn't work in the tech field or anything adjacent, still asks me what a computer scientist does" father and he seems to understand it pretty well.

When I said "explain", I don't mean "give a three sentence overview of the basic idea", I meant, "explain to the point he can use it".