[garmaine]

Also, Amazon.com. That's over a trillion dollars of value between them.

The Dotcom craziness gave us hundreds of companies of which only a much smaller amount survived and just a few thrived. But those few more than made up for the total aggregate investment. Likewise with cryptocurrencies. I would not be surprised, in fact I fully expect that most of the crypto coins and tokens out there will fail, investment in them being for nought. But 10-20 years from now, I would be very surprised if the total cryptocurrency industry, consisting of the winners and their descendants, is not orders of magnitude larger than it is today. Just like with the Dotcom era.