[lambdadmitry]

"The community" didn't "recover" because it wasn't broken in the first place. Sure ETH:USD declined, but then went up because everyone and their dog buy or mine cryptocurrencies in hope of getting rich fast (extensive media coverage helps). It's not a sign of a sound economic system, it's a sign of a bubble.

[wslh]

Not saying it is not a bubble. Amazon was part of the dot com era bubble and look at what they are now. When you lower the barrier of entry you have all kind of community members, including the few good ones who don't want to follow a more classical funding approach. In the worst case, all this is an interesting experiment.