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I agree. The benefits of bitcoin are fundamentally harder to wrap your head around than the dotcom stuff, or even the AI stuff currently grabbing headlines.
Whether or not Layer 2 becomes a genuine hype cycle I think will depend on how much mainstream attention it gets. Essentially, it boils down to how much investment discipline there is in the capital sources, I think. Less discipline => a true hype cycle, more discipline => natural growth.