Given that the rapid rate of technology can make what is "state of the art" today, look like a dinosaur in the future, why the reliance on software as a replacement for money? This Bitcoin hysteria is cultish. Gold persists because technology cannot surpass it's intrinsic value. Bitcoin is just (a) flavor of the month, and (b) already technologically surpassed by newer, more useful cryptos. I posit the only reason BTC has people still excited is momentum on "number go up". Momentum always recedes.