It's weird people keep comparing this to Bitcoin.
That's like "Oh our best & brightest sunk years and billions into a known-bad type of Alzheimers research? Wait till you hear about Pets.com"
That's like "Oh our best & brightest sunk years and billions into a known-bad type of Alzheimers research? Wait till you hear about Pets.com"
One was a launching platform for dozens of scientific and other large scale volunteer computing projects, and the other's value is entirely based in speculation.