It is the perfect time for this to be happening. My first post on HIVE addressed this, "HIVE in the Time of Cholera".
It is no coincidence that Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 and the work on the Bitcoin whitepaper was done during the economic collapse of the Great Financial Crisis. In times like these, revolutionary projects get done. That's just what happens.
I'm hoping HIVE and all of the promising projects in the blockchain space these days can buckle down and take advantage of this time.