It's like the heady days of the early web - many of the confident and smart upstarts behind it were, in reality, not the kind you might introduce to your mother (yet were completely harmless, in reality).
The world of cryptocurrencies is in a similar spot, as a generation of incredibly smart people start pushing the boundaries of what many know and understand, and in their unique way.
The cryptocurrency community is centered around a tightknit group of friends - developers, libertarians, Redditors and cypherpunks.
They have known each other for years through meet-ups, an endless circuit of crypto conferences and internet message boards.
Over long hours in anonymous group chats, San Francisco bars and Settlers of Catan game nights, they talk about how cryptocurrency will decentralize power and wealth, changing the world order.
The goal may be decentralization, but the money is extremely concentrated.