Cryptocurrency is knocking on the door of half a trillion market cap. All of us who have had our crypto for a while are doing exuberant little dances right now. But, I have to say there's a bit of me very worried.
No, i'm not worried about bubbles, or operation donkeyfingerer, or any of that stuff.
I'm concerned that suddenly, out of nowhere, Bitcoin is all over the mainstream media, and it's getting people interested.
And the reason that concerns me is that the cynical part of me knows that the mainstream media has always been about programming people in what to think.
After the last few years of (especially in the last couple of years or so) of telling everyone that Bitcoin is the evil that should never be spoken of, suddenly Rupert Murdoch's newsfiddlers are all over it like a rash.
In the past, if ever you heard a story about Bitcoin, it was all how evil only criminal hoards of gang-raping drug barons were using bitcoin to hide their ill gotten gains from the lovely tax man, and this of course meant that the NHS couldn't afford to give little Jonny that injection that would stop his arms from falling off.
Either that, or Malware nasties were all about extorting Bitcoin from poor unsuspecting government organisations, probably caused by the Russians or the North Korean bogeymen.
In fact, it was hard to find a mainstream story about Bitcoin that wasn't scaring the bejesus out of good honest people. When I used to talk to people about Bitcoin, normally they looked at me as if I was a cross between Pablo Escobar and the Child Snatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But now, everyone is talking about it. And that concerns me.
So why in the world is the mainstream suddenly telling everyone about it?
I genuinely would like to hear your thoughts. Especially if they are silly, great conspiracy theories, or pure fantasies.
A bounty for the best answer....