In 1995, Newsweek mocked Amazon's "selling books online" as a pipe dream;
In 2003, Hangzhou's West Lake Garden's "Taobao" was ridiculed by traditional merchants as a "concentration camp for scammers";
In 2023, Nobel economist Krugman declared that "blockchain has no value";
———— History never changes; only the objects of ridicule do. #PEPE