Yeah - I'm going to share a secret...this is a confessional. I don't believe in BTC long term. It's got first mover advantage - and some heavy institutional investors behind it - and that's about it. I still maintain it will always have 'collector value'...but for all the problems you mentioned, and then some...
You're probably right on Sia - FOMO-vestors are just looking down the charts, seeing what's up and throwing in money. Wait til it settles down.
Did you hear about Verge coin? $1 last year would be $1 million today. I think I'm gonna take a $100 and go for every coin that's like $.00000001 lol. And find these crypto sages you speak of haha
Yay Steemit - Dan + co were pretty brilliant with Steemit - the only way to ensure people use your crypto is to create an eco-system that depends on it...genius.