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Agree to some extent on the hype - people use the phrase flippantly without understanding it and if enough people do it the meaning gets diluted. But we discourage the hype at our peril. Even if you watch a room full of VCs, startups, bitcoin experts, regulators etc talk about it, all have different ideas / levels of understanding: https://youtu.be/R0iArSIU0Z8

"But in the case of the blockchain, the hype seems particularly merciless and quantitatively different." Yes but perhaps a result of social networking which wasn't as apparent (or in existence) when say, the internet took off.

Since Tulip Mania in 1600s, there will always be people who try to monetize hype!