We now live in a world where you can have two products side by side, where one has any of "Crypto" "Block" Coin" or "Chain" in their name or description and the other does not, where both products do the exact same thing, and have one of them raise billions of dollars overnight from VCs and the other one not get a single upvote on the new page of HN.

We truly live in a post-informational time. Everything is emotion. Nothing is about rationalization or sense or an actual understanding of how something works. Because we don't know how the thing worked, the numbers got giant, and we want giant numbers too. So if you use the same words as the thing we will plow money into you like no tomorrow because we still don't understand the thing but we see 1000x profit in 5 years.

Seing that "people at the top" hold a non-negligible fraction of world's assets lends some credibility to cryptocurrencies.