I think that cyberpunk dream died when billionaires and VC got involved and Bitcoin (and other) currencies skyrocketed in price from millions of people playing crypto-lottery.

Strikes against it:

- It's burning a massive amount of resources and that is just increasing

- I don't have the stats but I imagine the exponential growth in Bitcoin/coin prices is mainly from people using it as a pyramid scheme/casino not simple an upticl in usage

- A transaction is still pretty trackable (we know where the mt gox money is, yeah?)

- Over 60% of bitcoin mining takes place in one country on specialized hardware, not terribly decentralized anymore