Comment by pedrocr

It's amazing how well the historical bitcoin pricing curve[1] matches the Gartner hype cycle conceptual curve[2]. One of the criticisms of the Gartner curve is how unscientific it is but at least in this case the behavior matches pretty well.

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25z...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hype-Cycle-General.png