[alpaca128]

Maybe because this whole blockchain/cryptocurrency area is probably the only topic that's even more overhyped than Machine Learning.

> Bitcoin was actually super cool just on a technical level

How so? It's a fundamentally flawed design where the whole system has to be inefficient to be safe from attacks(51%). And the underlying blockchain is praised as immutable storage, which also means it can be abused by malicious actors to upload questionable data that would be very hard to get rid of again(e.g. it's already being abused as FBI-safe decentralized control instance for botnets).

Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding something, but so far I don't get why I should be ecstatic about a currency that's rather unstable and is mostly famous for emptying the GPU market. It had nice ideas and good intentions, but I don't think it turned out to be a good solution for anything.