To be fair, as someone who is cynical and lived through the turn of the century dot-com crash we needed a few high profile failures after the pets.com sock pupp

To be fair, as someone who is cynical and lived through the turn of the century dot-com crash we needed a few high profile failures after the pets.com sock puppet, myspace and cue-cats almost 20 years ago.... Thank goodness for Amazon... But honestly I missed the crypto currency expansion completely. Bitcoin when I noticed it at $50, bah.... It hasn't lived up to its promise of an alternative form of payment, but it certainly increased in value rapidly. But I wouldn't count it out completely, there may be a use case that in hindsight is obvious, that we aren't seeing yet. I doubt it but it is possible (my track record is good but mixed. I was the proud owner of buy.com stock.. that didn't work out so well.. ) Plus the algorithms are kind of interesting, and the fact it works at all is kind of miraculous.