The two truest things that I read today…both of them came from an article about Bitcoins:
The Internet is a big fan of the worst-possible-thing.
Many people thought Twitter was the worst possible way for people to communicate, little more than discourse abbreviated into tiny little chunks; Facebook was a horrible way to experience human relationships, commodifying them into a list of friends whom one pokes. The Arab Spring changed the story somewhat.
One recipe for Internet success seems to be this: Start at the bottom, at the most awful, ridiculous, essential idea, and own it. Promote it breathlessly, until you’re acquired or you take over the world.
Frankly, I don’t get how Bitcoins work, but that’s another matter.