I have not viewed the importance of my research to be saving the human race, although I have mentioned that the decentralization technology is probably an important release valve for the coming totalitarianism of the dying Industrial Age debt model of development. I like to understand how things work. That is what makes me who I am. I am analyzing for example cultural evolutionary strategy, why gold is centralized, etc.. All of these investigations add to my polymath-like (I'm not a genuine polymath) knowledge base.

And the past 4 weeks have been mired in medically-induced downtime/delirium, where I couldn't have done any serious technical work any way.

I understand your point about the importance of "head down in the trenches" being necessary to finish s/w projects. I obviously know that, since my track record is I have finished million user projects as the sole developer in the past. So I obviously understand what is required.

My point to Spoetnik is that even though 99.9% may be scams, it will only take one serious project to pull most of the capital out of the 100s of shitcoins and into the next big thing. I inject myself only because I think my technical knowledge is an example that not all of our ecosystem is hype devoid of actual technological knowledge. I wasn't trying to imply that I will certainly be the one to accomplish anything. Who else could I cite as an example? Smooth? What has he accomplished (I mean he is very technically knowledgeable and has made himself a lot of money and we have Monero, Aeon, and Steem)? Anthony the author of Byteball has made an important innovation, but many of you probably under appreciate the relevance. So I can't really cite him as an example yet, and I think he messed up other aspects of his design so the core of his invention may not achieve what its importance represents.