No. I spend a lot of time on twitter and real-life debating people (often gold bugs) about the merits of bitcoin, both technical and economic.
Bitcoin is many incredible advancements rolled into one:
1) Humanity's first authoritative decentralized record system.
2) The first credible electronic limited supply money/asset.
3) Humanity's first monetary system where the supply dynamics are (credibly) fully known to all participants.
4) The internet's first real protocol for exchanging value.
...etc...
How is that not exciting? It's even *more* exciting that more people are starting to realize the value of the above.
Some great articles/posts making these points:
Naval Ravikant's (Founder/CEO of
https://angel.co/) "The Internet of Money":
http://startupboy.com/2013/11/07/bitcoin-the-internet-of-money/Jeremy Allaire's (Founder
http://www.circle.com, Founder
http://www.brightcove.com/): "Digital Currency and Arc of the Internet":
http://www.circle.com/2013/10/30/digital-currency-and-the-arc-of-the-internet/
