I'm curious how much of an understanding of coding and computer science gives you an edge here in terms of making money. It's weird seeing people on the news talking about different cryptocurrencies when they obviously don't understand the technical merits of each. For example, Litecoin and Bitcon differ by the block mining times and the hash function used and Ethereum allows more complex smart contracts etc. but these kinds of details aren't mentioned. Bitcoin seems to be facing scalability issues (in terms of the protocol and the community) but I'd be very surprised if the news picked this up.