What worries me the most is that for 95% of all the bitcoin startups, VCs are just throwing huge sums of $$$ at them, but they are all basically creating "solutions looking for problems" instead of solving real needs. Gee, where have I seen and lived through that before? Oh yes, the DotComBomb of 2000. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Indeed. But there were a few trillion dollars to be made before it all went tits up and then things really got rolling after the wreckage had been cleared. I hope it doesn't pan out that way but it's kind of a natural cycle. Exuberance takes over for a while and people become blind to the practicalities.