At the moment it seems as though literally half the people that I’m speaking to just want to talk about bitcoin, while the other half just want to complain that no one wants to talk about anything except bitcoin.
But all this hype actually could cause problems for bitcoin going forward. For one thing, speaking to the exchanges and other mainstream financial services firms about why they’re launching bitcoin products, the answer is invariably some version of “well there’s tons of client demand for exposure to bitcoin”.