Crypto is hitting its ‘trough of disillusionment.’ Like the internet, its next phase will be better

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In November 2001, The New York Times declared: "Dot-com is dot-gone, and the dream with it." Three years later, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room.

The internet's rise, fall, and eventual resurgence hold an important lesson for today's skeptics of cryptocurrency: tech innovation often follows a predictable pattern, and crypto's golden days may just be ahead.