I understand it - even the term "gold rush" could be applied here, where people the get the fever and sometimes do irrational stuff to try to strike the good ol

I understand it - even the term "gold rush" could be applied here, where people the get the fever and sometimes do irrational stuff to try to strike the good ol'gold nugget. You can learn a lot from the psychology and sociology side of the Gold Rush event, and surely you can compare it to the crypto event (after all, that's what history is for). But like you've said, Bitcoin was created to imitate gold... still it's not gold.