I'm sorry, but it annoys me to hell and back seeing people type this NPC comment over and over.  There is no "getting it".  Wei Dai thought bitcoin would be worth ZERO.  Butalik Buterin thought bitcoin would be worth ZERO.  There is nothing objectively special about bitcoin and nothing to get.  It doesn't even really solve Byzantine generals, and it's designed to centralize, defeating the purpose of it's existence.  So what exactly is it that you "get"?  That lots of scammers would attempt to push it on other people in a pump and dump?  That's the only thing about it there is to get.