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I actually kind of do hope there is. In a climate of sceptics only the strongest businesses survives. When there's a bear market, I look around at what companies are still doing good and snatch some shares. Intelligent VCs that really understand and value the tech are going to make a killing and good, sound business plans become the norm rather than the exception for crypto companies then. Sure, the engineer in me we…
OP meant "backlash against crypto in general" as in backlash against cryptography in general. OP was using "crypto" as short for cryptography. I remember telling one of my relatives that I was looking into schooling for cryptography, and they had it confused for cartography. Crypto might end up being colloquially short for cryptocurrency in mainstream circles.
I think it's good if investors raise their eye brow sceptically and say "a cryptography company you say?" thinking about a cryptocurrency bubble, because then us engineers really have to step up our game and show rather than tell what we can do. As it is now, you just have to speak about the future rather than actually implement something at a reasonable cost today before investors go nuts, as evidenced by the subject of the OP's article.