Yes Dogecoin and Shiba Inu are worthless meme coins that don’t actually do anything.
I was referring to the top projects which tend to be L1 Blockchains like Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Polkadot, Cardano, Avalanche, Terra, Algorand or L2 scaling solutions like Polygon or Loopring. Or they are specialized like XRP (transfers/remittance payments), or Metaverse projects like Sandbox and Decentraland, or Chainlink which bridges all of them or any of a ton of gaming projects, or Audius which allows fans and music bands to directly connect and allows bands to publish their content to fans without the need for a record company, etc.
There are lots of projects like this which do have technology that have real world use cases. Its not all just a scam or ponzi scheme like some who don’t understand blockchain technology claim. There is a reason institutional investors have started pouring money into crypto in the last year.
I believe PirateChain and Monero will have a place as well. Those are not really traceable by the feds where as all the others are. They are more fungible (like cash).
Hackers that want to get paid in bitcoin are stupid. THey should demand getting paid in piratechain or at least monero.
Just don’t conflate the blockchain tech, which I see as having many uses, with Crypto per se.