95% of crypto is a scam.

If you’ve been in this space long enough, you’ve seen it all…

Rug pulls, vaporware, memecoins, “crypto charities” that turn out to be North Korean bot farms.

That’s the vast majority of crypto.

And it’s not just the twenty-somethings promising you “the next Dogecoin.”

After all, Trump’s memecoin wasn’t some basement project. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t one of the most efficient grifts ever minted on-chain.

If you’re invested in crypto, this all seems very depressing.

But here’s the thing (two things, actually)…

This ratio (95/5) isn’t unique to crypto. It’s not even unique to new industries.

It’s how pretty much everything works.

Today, let’s talk about why 95% of everything you see around you is headed for zero over the next twenty years…

And why finding the surviving 5% early is where the real wealth is (always) made.

95% of Booms Are Scams

It happens like clockwork.

During every major technological revolution, 95% of players are doomed to fail.

They extract, delay, or disguise rather than build something that can last.

But the 5%? They change the world forever.

Some examples…

In 1850s Britain, more than 1,000 railway companies were incorporated during the “Railway Mania.” By the 1870s, about 5% survived.

Between 1899 and 1930, the U.S. saw over 1,800 car companies. By 1930, only a dozen remained.

More than 200 aircraft startups formed between the World Wars. How many survived into the 1950s? Less than ten.

The early computer boom was a jungle of names…

DEC, Wang, Commodore, Tandy, Osborne, Kaypro, Amiga, Burroughs, NCR, and more.

By the 1980s, over 90% had failed or were acquired.

Point is…

When a new industry is born, 95% of its early participants fail—but the 5% that survive become the new standard.

It's a natural selection of innovation. It’s how everything works.

BUT…

The inverse of this is also true…

Every empire begins in the 5% that builds new paradigms…

But dies defending the 95% that can’t adapt to the new rules.

95% of Incumbents Will Go to Zero

When systems age, their purpose inverts. What began as creation turns into preservation; what once expanded access starts enclosing it.

Rules multiply, transparency fades, and innovation becomes compliance exercises.

As you read this, that describes 95% of the current economy—bloated, defensive, and living off momentum instead of invention.

For forty years, debt expansion disguised its decay. For twenty years, the internet flattened things but failed to filter truth.

Now interest rates, AI, and social algorithms have stripped away the few remaining illusions of competence…

Exposing just how much of the modern economy is just leverage, narrative, and noise.

95% of academia runs on fake incentives.

95% of pharma runs on bad data.

95% of Wall Street is bots trying to frontrun bots.

95% of the internet is bots arguing with bots.

95% of media is consent manufacturing.

95% of Big Tech is about hoarding your data to sell it back to you.

95% of education is selling you debt and credentials.

95% of healthcare is selling you illness.

95% of politics is protecting the 95% of everything that’s broken.

95% of everything is a scam.

What’s left is a civilization running on closed ledgers: opaque data, hidden algorithms, and unaccountable power.

When ninety-five percent of a system’s effort goes toward protecting what exists instead of creating what’s next? Collapse or reinvention follows.

So, What’s Next?

That’s why crypto, for all its chaos, still matters: it’s the first open, decentralized system built to make those ledgers public and credibly neutral.

Its noble aim is to try to solve one of humanity’s oldest problems: how to coordinate people at scale.

So, yes…

95% of crypto will go to zero.

But the remaining 5% of cryptos have the potential to help fix what 95% of everything broke.

The problem for investors right now?

Everything looks the same.

Everything goes up together. Everything crashes together.

Although it looks like 100% of it is a scam…

You’re not far off.

But that tiny sliver—the small 5%—will change everything forever.