So if tulipmania wasn’t actually a calamity, why was it made out to be one? We have tetchy Christian moralists to blame for that. With great wealth comes great social anxiety, or as historian Simon Schama writes in The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, “The prodigious quality of their success went to their heads, but it also made them a bit queasy.” All the outlandish stories of economic ruin, of an innocent sailor thrown in prison for eating a tulip bulb, of chimney sweeps wading into the market in hopes of striking it rich—those come from propaganda pamphlets published by Dutch Calvinists worried that the tulip-propelled consumerism boom would lead to societal decay. Their insistence that such great wealth was ungodly has even stayed with us to this day.
The above passage and the perversion of history outlined is yet another reason the blockchain will improve society. When facts are recorded on an immutable ledger, and they must be agreed upon by the entirety of the network, everyone will be writing history, not just the victors, and maybe this could mean a future where more people also enjoy the spoils.
Speaking of history, if you're going to be in crypto, it's helpful to know some. I often recommend this article I did at Bitcoinist a few years ago.