A clever product, with a niche market. Turned into a tulip-bulb market mania because 95% of people didn't understand what it really was, and thought they were getting left behind (greed).
Inevitably, the market mania has crashed. I hope none of our crypto promoters here got caught holding the bag. Tons of people got rich, buying low and selling high. But an equal number of people also bought high and are selling low. They are gonna want heads on pikes somehow. Will be interesting to see what the authorities do wrt SEC type investigations.
Probably now crypto will finally just be what it is, and serve it's small niche uses. Oh, and it's LARGE niche use for international money laundering.