The fine art world also falls under these various categories; zero-sum, greater-fool theory. Why pay $100m for a Basquiat? Because "number go up" of course; Yet no one is predicting its imminent demise.
Bar to entry is extremely low; copy-paste existing contract, change a few variables and launch. Yet, the contract must resist state-sponsored attacks, eg. https://rekt.news/big-phish/
Maybe one day there will be a sort of unhackable template that everything derives from, or an automatic software-prover.
Biden’S nuclear posture review; Every four years, the US government revises it’s nuclear policies in a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) ... Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports:
The Pentagon will eliminate the sole nuclear gravity bomb in the U.S. strategic weapons arsenal capable of blasting deeply buried underground structures as part of the Biden administration‘s review of strategic weapons policy, according to U.S. officials. The retirement of the B83 bomb, a megatonclass weapon delivered by B-2 stealth bombers, was disclosed to Congress last month as part of the Biden administration’s classified nuclear posture review, a major reassessment of strategic forces and their employment. The bomb is “costly to maintain
and of increasingly limited value,” a senior defense official told The Washington Times.
“Limited value?” Not so. Both Russia and China have deep underground nuclear missile bunkers and manufacturing and storage facilities that only
this weapon can attack. Even our land based and sub-launched warheads can’t penetrate these hardened facilities...