We had a huge buy-in tourney this weekend. These folks have money, and much of the idle chatter focused on this BitCoin craziness. One guy said he found a BitCoin expert on Twitter to follow for advice, and added, "...so I click to see who else is following this guy--it's ALL poker players!"
Every table, same story, that's all folks wanted to talk about. Folks who are in, want to brag. Folks who are not in, want to know about it.
After four consecutive downs of this, I could stay silent no longer: "When this thing crashes, eventually, I don't know what it's going to do the economy--but it's going to WRECK poker!"
The folks who were in, all nodded. One added, "Same thing if McGregor won that fight!"