And yet\u2014here we are. Once again, ahead of my time, I\u2019m actively trying to convince Swedes\u2014a people who trust banks more than their own mothers\u2014that this actually matters. Somewhere along the way, my skepticism turned into curiosity, my curiosity turned into obsession, and my obsession led me to actually start writing about this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The moment it all started to go wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like many, my introduction to crypto came through a friend who lost a ton of money trading Bitcoin. \u201cI mean, why just hodl when you can beat the market?\u201d The Swedish media had already confirmed what I suspected\u2014crypto was either a Ponzi scheme, a money-laundering tool, or just a really good way to lose money. And as a rational, law-abiding Swede, I knew better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, one evening, sitting there with my daily bowl of porridge, I made the mistake of watching some YouTube videos. First, it was harmless curiosity. But soon, I had spent hundreds of hours <\/em>watching Raoul Pal, Charles Hoskinson, Paul Barron, Brad Garlinghouse, and Michael Saylor rant about decentralization and financial freedom. Sweet Buddha, I even found myself lying in bed watching BitBoy Crypto and cursing every time Gary Gensler made the news. My friends were getting worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then it hit me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Wait a second\u2026 what if they\u2019re right?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n They weren\u2019t just gambling on dog coins. They were talking about a new internet, a financial system that doesn\u2019t require permission, and the possibility that trusting massive institutions with everything we own might not be the best idea ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My existential crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At first, I tried to shake it off. After all, Sweden had a perfectly regulated financial system! Who needs crypto when we have Swish and our government-approved banking overlords?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Web3, I realized, wasn\u2019t just about money. It was about power, ownership, and control. It was about the fact that most of us willingly hand over all our data, assets, and digital identities to a handful of companies who monetize every click we make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Sweden\u2019s Web3 discourse is\u2026 well, let\u2019s just say it needs some work. The conversation still sounds like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Crypto is a scam.”<\/strong> Meanwhile, the U.S., Europe, and Asia are already integrating blockchain into finance, healthcare, and governance, while Sweden still acts like Web3 is some rebellious teenager who just needs to grow up and get a corporate job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, why am I still here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, my mom says I\u2019m special. So, obviously, I had to step in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honestly, it wasn\u2019t one single \u201caha\u201d moment. It was one major realization:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If people like me\u2014who care about social development and human well-being\u2014don\u2019t engage with Web3, then the space will be shaped by those who only care about profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So now, I\u2019m here, running Cryptobeyer, asking the questions Sweden isn\u2019t\u2014hoping that one day, someone will actually answer. \u201dHello does anyone hear me?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five years ago, if you had told me I\u2019d be writing about Web3, I would have smiled and said, \u201cOf course,\u201d because I\u2019m too curious for my own good. Crypto? Blockchain? NFTs? It all sounded like a scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","wds_primary_category":136,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptobeyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“But blockchain could revolutionize finance!”<\/em>
“Okay, but Bitcoin is bad for the environment.”<\/strong>
“Yes, but Ethereum moved to proof-of-stake”<\/em>
“I don\u2019t trust it. My bank works just fine.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n