The optimistic view: this is a rapidly growing new frontier offering lots of opportunity, it just happens to be digital rather than physical (ex: space).
I suspect blockchain-based digital assets will make virtual economies very real. People will be able to earn their entire living in virtual worlds in the next 10-15 years, changing the definition of “work” itself.
$2500 which you saved until 2009 when you converted it all in to bitcoin at $0.01, making you a billionaire and thus proving all parents and spouses wrong forever.