The worse part of this whole argument is that we have now probably taken the whole Crypto acceptance back 12 months, at the moment anyone looking to get into Crypto would only read about shonky sites, scams and drug sales.
Crypto has evolved plenty in the past 12 months. The only thing that hasn't changed is the scams. They will eventually go away when people either stop being so naive/gullible (unlikely) or the feds get involved and regulate the crap out of crypto.
It used to be about hope and a new technology now it is about scams, we may even see 2015 as the year Crypto currency died, and it will be mentioned in the history books as a fad.
It's always been about hope and technology and scams.