Certainly makes it easy to have a high-density, high-value object - much more dense than casino chips. Put the only copy of a wallet with tons of BTC on a microSD. Fun marketing gimmick, too. Put $100 worth on a bunch of micro SDs, spray 'em gold, toss em out at concerts or stuff.
Would totally get headlines if someone put $1M worth on an SD, then laughed and ate it live on TV and said good luck finding it. Or tossed it out of an airplane, or boat, etc. People show off wealth in all sorts of ways...
I'm super interested in making cryptocurrency printable and exchangable.
It would be cool to make coins out of bits of recycled computer chips and resin, and only allow the e-waste recyclers to mint them. The global poor become our new bankers. ='D
Pretty sure the majority of people don't know about cryptocurrency yet. On the other hand, less than 1% of Americans were invested in the stock market preceding the Great Depression..
It's not even close. I've been told that at the height of the Dotcom bubble, companies received investments for simply having ".com" in their name. That's where we're headed.
There are companies raising >$100m with a prototype written by a single dev.
I think we are close to the top, how much worse than this can it get?
Everyone has realized there's crazy mania, and so now everyone is capitalizing on it. In a few months, the number of projects to fund will no longer be smaller than the amount of money being put towards funding.
I read about it in the newspaper for the small town my parents live in, and I have a completely non-technical friend duped into a weird Bitcoin ponzi scheme. It's getting there.
