Perfect example. I was practically a history lesson as I wasn't even alive throughout most of the above incidents. Thanks for the info.

Currency competition is a wonderful thing. There will be a dot-com bubble like event(/s). But through all that, we'd achieve a much better future. BTC was a prototype. It did its work. It's time we build on top of that and create better products.

About the Facebook idea: check out WeChat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechat)  and https://ico.nexus.social

Your future has been around for a while already.