Are you really trying to argue that all companies in a space need to succeed, for the space to be successful? As for bitcoin itself, people and companies have

Are you really trying to argue that all companies in a space need to succeed, for the space to be successful? As for bitcoin itself, people and companies have hyped it for their own benefit, but bitcoin itself isn't a company, and therefore isn't hyped. It is one technology that lives on its own and survives primarily because of the will of the people that choose to participate in it.