For the longest time i thought that bitcoin is not actually so needed globally, its like an inside currency made for use within specific community of anonymous wannabees to pay each other for their specific services without putting their activity on hold
don't mean anything criminal
It has a very cyberpunk-ish vibe for me, and now that after a huge rise due to even bigger attention from "general crowd" my opinion has came to the starting point, though blockchain itself is way more useful, than just having  a coin