Crypto didn't and still doesn't have the same immediate utility. The value proposition just wasn't there to justify the money and attention it was getting. Bitcoin in particular was a prototype that got mythologized into being "digital gold" despite it's many, many technical limitations.
Diffusion models and LLMs work today and make possible things that were science fiction five years ago, and have shown tremendous and exciting progress in the past 18 months.
Crypto didn't and still doesn't have the same immediate utility. The value proposition just wasn't there to justify the money and attention it was getting. Bitcoin in particular was a prototype that got mythologized into being "digital gold" despite it's many, many technical limitations.
Diffusion models and LLMs work today and make possible things that were science fiction five years ago, and have shown tremendous and exciting progress in the past 18 months.