After ten years in which the cryptocurrencies began their irruption in the sphere of finance and the real economy, I believe that the expected takeoff had already taken place if their technology were a necessary response to the economic conditions of today. But after all this time people do not seem to be taking seriously the role of cryptos in the modern world, so it is possible that this market will only become a high-risk speculative business in which to diversify some capital, but without reach the high levels of capitalization that many expected, and without the domination of world trade and the banking system that many bitcoiners dreamed of.