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I think there's certainly some interesting ideas happening, but the jury is still very much out on whether cryptocurrencies even have a future. It's been several years now and we have... what? Thousands of memes about never spending your currency because it's going to be worth x1,000,000 in the future?

[chrisco255]

Oh boy, you could say that about any tech that hasn't quite hit mainstream couldn't you? Including VR/AR and self driving cars, except these technologies have been around much, much longer (decades) and have yet to go fully mainstream.

Bitcoin itself is 9 years old. Ethereum is barely 3 years old. Meanwhile, people are building decentralized trading platforms, prediction markets, provably fair online casinos, an entirely new venture funding model has been created, crypto collateralized loans, virtual assets trading, IOT-based supply chain management, and so much more. You'd realize that if you looked past the memes, there's something there, it's still very early, but it's growing rapidly.