In all honesty I can see people being enthusiastic about crypto as a “get rich quick” scheme (at the expense of less fortunate people but soit) - but how people can see crypto as the future of money with a worldwide ~10 TPS throughput and every transaction on a public blockchain is beyond me.
The transaction limit and public-ness of transactions are implementation details of certain blockchains. There are blockchains with much better TPS, and blockchains where transactions are not public.
Yes - you're missing "mathemagic" :) And a variety of independent engineering solutions which are largely independent of the mathemagic(think sharding or something like the lightning network).
Check out ZCash for an example of non-public, decentralized block chain.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/why-this-computer-sci...
In all honesty I can see people being enthusiastic about crypto as a “get rich quick” scheme (at the expense of less fortunate people but soit) - but how people can see crypto as the future of money with a worldwide ~10 TPS throughput and every transaction on a public blockchain is beyond me.