With bitcoin I know quite a few bitcoin bores, so fun times ahead.
Even people who believed in the future of technology and the long term impact of the internet and just invested a portion of their retirement savings in NASDAQ composite index funds watched them take 15 years to recover their value.
After a few years people stop talking about their bad decisions.
Maybe people don’t talk about it much these days. People in the company I’m with spoke about their experiences working during them. Some got lucky when their financial advisor told them to at least sell their first vesting (their stock would have dropped 80-90% by next sell window), others weren’t so lucky.
That's quite a lot bigger than some merchants in the Netherlands losing their shirts in the tulip crash. It's also a lot bigger than the impact of a bitcoin crash would be if it happened today.