Says something about society's myopia. I need to research and synthetize history of projects like these. Invisible at first, diagonal .. and then booming. Mostly about people's inspiration and thinking process prior said project.
(My job is advocating a cryptocurrency that enables privacy through technology, but I think that cryptocurrencies should be a quite small percentage — if any — of most people's investment portfolios.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793