I'm really getting tired of the old Dot Com comparison. From my point of view, these two events are nothing alike.

Imagine if all those dot com companies were open source. Imagine if money from the top dot com business constantly trickled down to the smaller projects. Imagine if some of those dot com companies got so much funding that they could work on their projects for the rest of their lives. Imagine if the dot com businesses were trying to solve the biggest problem the world has ever seen: the control and subsequent corruption of currency.

Until proven wrong, I will maintain that the outcomes of these completely separate events will diverge into a totally unexpected series of events.