People don't want to admit it, but cryptocurrencies will absolutely go the way of tulips & beanie babies.

Various -technological aspects- from bitcoin and co's innovations will be lifted and utilized in new ways, but right now we should just be calling them "crypto-hold-forevers" or "crypto-get-rich-quick-schemes" or "crypto-buzzwords-to-sell-contracts" instead of -currencies-.

For one, Tulips had one boom and one bust, whereas crypto has had at least four cycles. It's more like the dot com. There is some real, high-value innovation surrounded by lots of cargo-culting grifters, and in the end there will be a few big winners, and a lot of losers.