I do mobile software consulting. To give you an idea of the level of crypto currency mania: Every single one of my clients in San Francisco have some kind of slack or group chat devoted to crypto trading.
I was waiting at the front desk of a client who has a floor in a fancy building downtown. Whilst waiting I overheard the end of a conversation between the door guy talking to the maintanence man: “I put in a bunch of money like you said and it went up!”. The door guy was gesturing at his phone and I vaguely saw a blue and white interface that looked like coinbase. I’m 95% sure this conversation was about bitcoin or etherium. This occurred about two weeks ago.
It really made me think of that old story about the shoe shine boy talking stocks promoting a guy to exit the stock market prior to the 1929 crash:
I was waiting at the front desk of a client who has a floor in a fancy building downtown. Whilst waiting I overheard the end of a conversation between the door guy talking to the maintanence man: “I put in a bunch of money like you said and it went up!”. The door guy was gesturing at his phone and I vaguely saw a blue and white interface that looked like coinbase. I’m 95% sure this conversation was about bitcoin or etherium. This occurred about two weeks ago.
It really made me think of that old story about the shoe shine boy talking stocks promoting a guy to exit the stock market prior to the 1929 crash:
http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...