Yes the hype is not what it used to be in 2017 and a simple Google trends analysis shows you this,
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=bitcoinLooking at the chart, when we pumped to $13.8K back in June the peak interest was only 25% of what it was in 2017. And most people I talked too who were involved in 2017 simply moved on to other things like stocks.
There are still investments being made like the Kraken futures purchase of like 8-9 figures (forgot which exactly) and there is still marketing being done by Gemini all over New York City, however its nothing like 2017 were everybody was talking about Bitcoin.
I think it would need to break the $20K mark to make the overall interest rise again. With price declining its certainly not the case anymore.
It seems like so. 2017 was believed to be the "Golden Year of Crypto". The fall of prices across the market within the beginning of 2018, has shown a steep decline in people's demand for crypto within the mainstream world. There are still many faithful crypto enthusiasts (like me) that hope prices will go higher within the future. But without demand for crypto, we cannot expect this to happen anytime soon. The next big step for bringing back the "Blockchain hype" would be increasing the scalability and fungibility of crypto in its entirety. Only then, people will be able to see the true benefits of crypto relative to Fiat.
Once Bitcoin gets past $20k per coin, then things would get interesting for the whole Blockchain industry. No one knows exactly when this will happen since prices are still low these days. Maybe the next halving in 2020, would have a positive effect over Bitcoin's price and the entire crypto market. As soon as people see prices increase across the market, you could expect the "Blockchain hype" to take place once more. Until then, things will be quite silent for very long time. Let's hope that more businesses, and mainstream companies adopt Blockchain technology for their own benefit in order to keep the hype going and prices rising within the crypto market. Just my opinion
its kinda sad really. we had such good steam there, now its pretty quiet
crazy part is that its not that crypto is dead persay, its more alive then ever, but its become institutionalized. price cant rise without whales taking profits and dumping it
projects are so busy with cash grabs making separate projects, everyone should have been working together instead
meanwhile the highest ACTUAL registers of crypto patents, banks, have been silently adopting the tech all the while continuing to condem it to everyday customers
what a shame really. such potential, getting absorbed, like everything, by capitalism : /